Evening all On Thu, 10 May 2001, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Peter Mott wrote:
After AsiaOnline's woe the other day, we notified Telecom that due to their stupidity and arrogance we are establishing our own link to the APE where we will peer with AsiaOnline and others ourselves.
Well Orcon and 2day just about round out the list of large ISPs in the country. That about leave KC and Netgate out in the cold.
Is Telecom global gateway the only player that wants to sit in the corner with the ball, or are there (significant) others?
GG/Netgate is by far the biggest provider not peering across WIX or APE. Netgate are on Ape but I don't know if the link is unused or perhaps for delivering international bandwidth.
The connection on port 3 of our APE switch is up, the MAC address on that port resolves to Netgate's APE IP#, and its description is TCNZ. Taking that as evidence that I'm looking at the right connection, this is their port utilisation: 5 minute input rate 2927000 bits/sec, 1143 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 2269000 bits/sec, 1162 packets/sec 226545933 packets input, 2159292636 bytes Received 241065 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored 0 watchdog, 240829 multicast 0 input packets with dribble condition detected 250088800 packets output, 3635801519 bytes, 0 underruns 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 2 interface resets 0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred 0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out So yes, you can safely say that Global Gateway are up and running on APE, and sending traffic somewhere.
I would assume it would be cheaper for smaller providers to get (say) a 1Mb/s link into APE (and get their netgate bandwidth there) than run 512k link to APE and another 512k link to Netgate.
One would assume so.
Anybody know if GG/Netgate do this?
No idea, I suspect they'll have to soon.
There are private peering links for ihug to netgate and tsnz to netgate (I think) right now. Not sure about Clear to Netgate.
I had a feeling Telstra Saturn dropped theirs, but I might be wrong. Cheers Si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog