[AusNOG] Write up - Big ISP, little ISP, local internet exchanges

[Adrian Chadd]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> At http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/html/00247.html I have placed a
> write up called "Big ISP, little ISP, local internet exchanges"
> which is about the behaviour you initially don't expect, but is
> perfectly explainable, when the local internet exchange gets hooked
> up by both "edge ISPs" and "transit providers" and what transit
> providers can do about it to overcome it.

Make sure you do some research into obtaining "cheap transit" via
naive configs at peering exchanges.

Start with the Telstra/Access One/Connect interconnect fiasco in the mid
90's and what a combination of no-export and selective deaggregation got
you.



Adrian