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Re: IXP hardware

To: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: IXP hardware
From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 04:04:35 -0800
Cc: Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene at cisco.com>,antonio at nambu.uem.mz, afnog at afnog.org
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ever wonder why the route server approach is no longer used at the
big exchanges in the states, europs, ...?

ever wonder why the route reflector approach is not used in the
...?

they have bad failure modes and add no real value.

do it the old-fashioned direct inter-isp bgp peering way.  it's
simple.  it's stupid.  simple and stupid are reliable and scale
well.

randy

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