On Tue, Feb 20, 2001, Paul Vixie wrote:
nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net (John Fraizer) writes:
Beyond that, I'm _REALLY_ sick of people pissing and moaning about NAPS being congestion points. If you're so tired of the exchange point being slow, INVEST IN MAKING IT FASTER!!!!! ...
That's what PAIX did. And Equinix for that matter. Exchange points aren't slow, though I admit that some of the ATM-based exchanges have hit their scaling limit. Exchange points based on Ethernet with rich PNI opportunities literally do not have scaling limits.
I'm curious - has anyone performed a study of the BGP convergence times at NAPs? I mean, all those private interconnects are good and fine and all, but with the existing BGP implementations in vendor equipment today, I can see the BGP convergence as this big matrix of relationships of BGP performance of peers routers. On the same breath, why aren't people using route-servers at NAPs? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "Romance novel?" <adrian@creative.net.au> "Girl Porn." - http://www.sinfest.net/d/20010202.html