On 18-May-2006, at 19:07, Simon Allard wrote:
IHUG is changing its peering policy for peering over WIX and APE. We will no longer be directly peering with our current peers but will continue to peer with the route reflectors. Customers of IHUG who require APE/WIX peering directly will not be affected by this policy.
It might be worth noting for the sake of clarity that the things at the APE and WIX with which IHUG will continue to peer are route servers, not route reflectors. Route reflectors (per RFC 2796) are a strategy for reducing an IBGP mesh within a single AS. The BGP speakers at the APE and WIX propagate routes using from other ASes with a NEXT_HOP which is a connected route for exchange participants; they serve routing information using *E*BGP towards peers without being involved in carrying any packets which might follow those routes. Hence, route _server_. Joe