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Transit over the MFS meet points as a product?
Rumor has it that MFS is planning to release a "product" that
will provide an official way to provide transit through their
meet points. From what I've heard, it will be offered through
MFS meet point customers current interfaces.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I had some thoughts myself:

If this happens, will MFS attempt to police the meet point
and force anyone who is currently providing "transit" to purchase
and user this "product"?

Will it change/worsen the performance of the heavier traffic
sites by "stealing" customers from the larger traffic sources, and
then dumping traffic upon those already overloaded circuits making
the HoLB problem all the worse?

Does anyone really care whether or not transit is sold over
the MFS meet points, and if so, what are the operation concerns?


Chris A. Icide
Nap.Net, L.L.C.
Re: Transit over the MFS meet points as a product? [ In reply to ]
Of course this doesn't help when someone points default at you :(

Barry
> > If this happens I'd suggest everyone at the NAPs deploy some type of MAC-layer
> > filtering. It's far to easy (and seemingly common) for providers to forget to
> > set "next-hop-self" on NAP routes .. so what I foresee is providers selling
> > transit via the exchanges ...and then never seeing the traffic bound to
> > *their* unsuspecting peers.
>
> Or:
> 'sho ip bgp neigh 192.41.177.x adv' and look at the next-hops.
>
> I know that some providers have been doing it for years, probably
> with automated expect-grep-type scripts..
>
> > -danny
>
> Avi
>
Re: Transit over the MFS meet points as a product? [ In reply to ]