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[Frank Habicht]

Hello List,

just a few questions (below).

Our IXP traffic at TIX is getting me excited whenever it's over 1.5mbps.
That's not much.

My main aim is to:
- increase use of the ixp
- increase (positive) effect of the ixp
- increase benefit to participants

Today I noticed one ip (which is likely part of ip nets) to be
- under command of a peer (whois)
- going very far getting there (2x sat links back into Dar es Salaam) [*]
- reply getting fast back (traceroute)
that is: up to including last hop 600ms < rtt < 1100ms
that means last hop didn't go :   orig(TZ) -> Europe -> destination ->
Europe -> orig(TZ)
but rather :   orig(TZ) -> Europe -> destination ... IXP ... orig(TZ)

and " ... " is much faster than " -> "
(samples are no secret, i can supply - reminder to self: 196.45.36.37)

So then -trying to keep all the packets on the last links- I made a
friendly email to that peer, telling what i found and asking to check if
they could announce more.
Yes, people are free to mess up their routing and links themselves - and
punished by the market for that.... but see my aims above ;-)
They are just not aware enough yet. Or maybe staff churn in that case....

Maybe I should now come to the question: is there a better way?

Now I should think about whether it _might_ have caused them trouble
when a customer of theirs started announcing a subnet /28 on the IXP.
(apart from that being something they possibly "wouldn't like")

Frank

[*] any hop in traceroute, if increasing rtt by >550ms is a sign of both
going and returning via vsat.
we don't have the luxury of the more complicated
one-way-vsat-other-way-fiber ....