New subject: BGP over NZIX -comments from Waikato about Joe Ableys posting on this topic

24 Jan 1999

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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:05:11PM +1300, Warwick GLENDENNING wrote:
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We(Waikato) currently still use OSPF on NZIX to collect NZ 
routes. And this
is vital to our traffic metering. A new metering system is 
being built to
use BGP4 to download NZ routes from our traffic provider. 
Once this has been
done, we will be very keen to download NZ routes from major 
ISPs on NZIX and
OSPF can be decommissioned.
Supposing that a general agreement to move to BGP was made 
earlier than
your planned roll-out - presumably as long as Telecom were 
able to make
the NZ table available on OSPF to you, your requirements 
would be satisifed?
This is true.
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There is no particular necessity for us all to speak OSPF, 
right? I would
assume that your particular requirements were an issue 
between you and your
service provider, and not a general exchange issue.
Just exploring ideas :)
This is true too. We only provide layer 2 connectivity. ISPs on NZIX don't
have to follow some certain routing protocol. It should depend on their
interest. 

But it should be said that Kawaihiko had multiple service providers and NZIX
was the place where most of domestic traffic got exchanged. It's why Waikato
has used OSPF to collect NZ routes from NZIX. Since Kawaihiko network broke
up, we have been trying to build a new way to meter traffic. It will be
appreciated very much if Clear can keep OSPF running until we have rolled
out the new metering system.

Regards Warwick
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RE: BGP over NZIX -comments from Waikato about Joe Ableys posting on this topic

Warwick GLENDENNING

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