What do we think about this lease a beacon request? Henk
X-Original-To: henk@ripe.net Delivered-To: henk@ripe.net Subject: Anycast experiment on RIS beacons From: Hitesh Ballani <hitesh@cs.cornell.edu> To: Henk Uijterwaal <henk@ripe.net> Cc: Paul Francis <francis@cs.cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:36:30 -0400 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jul 2006 07:36:31.0354 (UTC) FILETIME=[3991ADA0:01C6A718] X-RIPE-Spam-Level: X-RIPE-Spam-Tests: BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-RIPE-Spam-Status: N 0.199237 / -1.0 X-RIPE-Signature: 64ae5fe64670bb4f4470da6bcadb0289
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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