RE: comments on proposed setup

[Sematimba Noah K <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug>]

>
> This is not true, the IXP has to have 2 routers and 2 ether switches for
> redundancy and if a route reflector is needed then this can be one of the
> routers or an additional router. Ether switches can not run BGP4 unless we
> have an extreme ether switch. Have a look at the IXP white paper Barry Green
> wrote at Cisco. This document was made after investigating IXP all over the
> world on how they have the setup.
>
> p.s. who is Randy? was he at our meetings?
I think his idea is that ideally the ISPs should just peer with each other
directly with only a switch in between to facilitate communication or so I
think. Randy is not infallible and he could be wrong but he is very good
and I just want to know why he thinks such a setup is better. I am
looking at the paper. It may be a simplistic approach but it is also the
reason I was saying that I had reservations about the setup something of
this sort was on my mind but I needed time to think about it and formulate
it into sensible ideas.
regards,
Noah.