On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:22:46PM +1300, Wayne Kampjes said:
Which catagories of traffic in that list do you think should be incuded in a local Internet peering?
Any customers with static IP addresses
I've no idea if it is still the case, but a couple of years ago the design of the TC Wholesale local peering product meant that customers on static IP's out in DSL land saw your announcements, and so you got packets from them, but Telecom provided no route back to them *via the same service*. So static IP address customers were only *half* excluded - you needed an alternate transit path to be able to give packets back to Telecom, or you risked blackholing a significant number of users. From memory, static IP's made up something like 50% of the traffic for the CBD exchanges, and maybe 30% overall. That path asymmetry was another reason why the local peering service looked OK on paper, but in practice was pretty hard to utilise sanely. There was muttering within TCNZ about sorting out a better solution for the static IP users, I haven't heard if anything came of that. My naive view was that localising a nationwide service didn't look particularly easy without renumbering the punters, or giving up some transit, presumably neither of which were palatable for TCNZ. Cheers Simon (who is bummed that he missed NZNOG, OTOH, I've a nice new baby boy to cuddle :-) -- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Geek for hire