Re: transit across the ixs

On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Randy Bush wrote:

you might be amused to write a bit of code to see if your ix peers are giving you next-hops of other provider(s). it is clear that a number of providers are selling transit across the ixs. not at all cool.

we can't decide whether to force next hop on their routes, or keep watching and de-peer them if they do not cease and desist. what do others do in this circumstance?

I'm aware of at least one fairly major backbone who does this (at least they used to). What's the issue with this anyways? I mean, at least superficially it's basically the same traffic. I can see that there would be some issues with how the traffic transitions the ixs, which may or may not be a problem. Pete.