26 Nov
1996
26 Nov
'96
8:43 p.m.
This is a great discussion! Who is going to accummulate and process all this data?
As others have noted here today, it is almost impossible to collect statistics on some IXP's due to the nature of their media or the programming of the switches. I wonder if one of our agenda items during the IXP portion of NANOG can be "would y'all be willing to let an IXP-centric Vulture(*) collect statistics about whichever of your router's interfaces connects to the IXP?" It seems to me that if we can't collect full mesh switch port statistics, maybe we could do just as well by collecting data from the ISP routers? (*) see http://www.vix.com/vulture/, and no this is not a commercial.