On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 03:34:55PM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote:
I wish this would have good outcomes, but almost no customers use advanced features, which cost money to develop and maintain.
Likely by voting with your feet, support expensive customers aggregate to feature full companies, and support cheap customers aggregate to feature empty companies, creating perverse incentive, especially in such markets as IP transit, which is largely seen as interchangeable and the only metric is cost.
Yes, the challenge I've seen here is that as randy said "so give me free transit", the issue that i've seen is propogation of routes much further than expected which makes things far more difficult, and this gets worse when you talk about any sort of anycast(ed) prefixes and how you monitor those. It takes a lot of time as well to debug and figure out if it's an oddity of the routing architecture or something simpler that leads to these issues. I also know that testing all these variants can be quite hard as well, so there's something to be said about the investment point. Also saku is right on the below as well:
Nanog is unfortunately not representative.
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