What do we think about this lease a beacon request?
Henk
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>Subject: Anycast experiment on RIS beacons
>From: Hitesh Ballani <hitesh(a)cs.cornell.edu>
>To: Henk Uijterwaal <henk(a)ripe.net>
>Cc: Paul Francis <francis(a)cs.cornell.edu>
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:36:30 -0400
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>Hello Henk,
>
>I am Hitesh, Paul's student working on the IP Anycast project
>(http://pias.gforge.cis.cornell.edu). As Paul mentioned to you, we are
>interested in doing some measurement studies on IP Anycast and think
>that the RIS beacon service offered by your group can serve as a very
>useful testbed for such measurements. We have acquired an AS number and
>a prefix (a /22) for this purpose and would like to use some or all of
>your RRCs as anycast servers by advertising our prefix through them.
>I can see two ways in which this can be done:
>
>* If it is possible for me to get access to the beacon boxes, I could
>run a software router on them to peer with your beacon software and
>advertise our prefix through your AS. Note that we would like our own
>peering, instead of the beacon service being currently offered, so that
>starting and stopping of the advertisements and the RRCs being used can
>be controlled by us. Apart from the software router, I will also need
>permissions to run a DNS server on the same host.
>
>* In case access to the beacon boxes is not possible, we could establish
>EBGP peerings between a box here at Cornell and your RRCs over tunnels.
>In effect, this would allow me to run whatever I need on my boxes while
>you would only need to support a BGP peering across a tunnel (and
>advertise our prefix onwards).
>
>In any event, if either of these options seem feasible, I would be more
>than happy to provide more details about the kind of experiments we want
>to run, the peering requirements, the amount of traffic that can be
>expected and so on.
>
>Thanks.
>--
>hitesh
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