RE: FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Internet Exchange - Tanzania

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka@africaonline.co.sz>]

owner-techies@uixp.co.ug wrote:
>     > CFI (Computer Frontiers International) were to setup a stats
>     server at the > IX to capture this data.
>     > ...only customers connected to the ISP will be able to view the
>     > stats on the stats server. Other users, on the greater
> Internet, will not. 
>
>
> 
> I may have said this before, 

You did, actually...

>but people in many other places _really
> dislike_ the idea of having a host of any sort on the exchange subnet
> itself...  Most people would put the stats server elsewhere, so it
> wouldn't run into a reachability problem.   
> 
>                                 -Bill

Indeed, yet another plausible option.

The issue here would be to ensure that the stats server gathers information
as_seen_from_the_IX, and not from an ISP perspective, as is the current case
(albeit it could still be hosted by an ISP).

Regards,

Mark Tinka
Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland



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