[AusNOG] BiLateral Peering Via MegaPort and/or NSW-IX

[McDonald Richards]

Try telling that to every single-homed stub network that demands a full BGP
table...

Macca


On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:

> Further to this, the more peers you add, the more routes your routers have
> to manage, and process, and filter, and activate based on best-path
> selection. It's unnecessary processing time when IX's like NSW-IX and
> Megaport IX strip their own AS, so at best you might be getting a higher
> local pref on the other side, but it'd likely still come in via the same
> path whether you set up the peering or not.
>
> On 06/03/15 13:40, Barry Murphy wrote:
>
>> Second this, unless we¹re doing a couple hundred mbps between each other,
>> the route servers would suffice as its not worth the engineers time to
>> configure a bilateral for someone doing 80kbps to our network.
>> AS-Stats is the way and if you¹re doing 50mbps of 95th to a specific peer,
>> then perhaps ASK if they will peer with you (peeringdb.com)
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
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