Re: comments on proposed setup

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka@sanyutel.com>]

Well, I suppose a switch would work just as fine, since it will have
connections to/from all the ISP's communications equipment at the IXP, but
in the interest of future growth and expansion and effective Network
Management Control [NMC] at the IXP to encompass more architectures,
services and applications, not only for the IXP and ISPs, but for the other
end users such as NGOs and other coporations that might require co-location
based services, web hosting, media streaming, the works, at any of the ISPs
that has access to the IXP, I  would suggest that we really review the
scenarios, one and two, [despite the fact that scenario two was rather
contentious and would require heavy justification to the guys putting pen to
paper] that were looked at during the last meeting, examine what each will
cost and see what would be best for implementation, flexibilty and future
expansion based on these factors.

However, what Randy said should not be discarded, especially about the L2
route reflector, and it would be a very good idea, I beleive, to discuss
this problem at the next meeting, so we know exactly what we are pitching
ourselves against. Thanks.

Regards,

Mark Tinka
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sematimba Noah K" <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug>
To: "Rob Gipman" <gipmanr@mtn.co.ug>
Cc: <techies@uixp.co.ug>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 2:28 PM
Subject: RE: comments on proposed setup


> >
> > 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.
>