Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:58:04PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Fearghas McKay wrote:
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It should be noted that ISPs usually do not announce address space used on the IXP mesh itself to their peers. That means the address space assigned under this policy is likely not to be routable globally.
Care to explain how traceroute through these IX's is supposed to work, if the node performing traceroute, ping, or whatever, is not a small-scale customer (ie. default route) of the IX participants?
For a traceroute *through* the IX you don't need the route to that /64. It might get filtered if you do RPF filtering (but multihomed customers usually don't, because it doesn't work), but reachability of the hosts *behind* the IX is not a problem. Whether it's desireable to be able to traceroute *to* an IX address is debateable (but that's not different from today), this is what wouldn't work. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299