Re: PAIX Outages

[Alexander Koch <koch () tiscali net>]

On Fri, 29 April 2005 13:04:05 +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > and we 
> > happily overloaded our peers' interfaces at the respective 
> > other IX... 
>
> That sounds more like a planning issue than anything else. If you
> have traffic going through a pipe, then you need to make sure you have
> somewhere else to send it. If you are managing your peers properly,
> private or public, there should be no issue.

With public peering you simply never know how much spare
capacity your peer has free. And would you expect your
peer with 400 Mbit/s total to have 400 reserved on his AMSIX
port for you when you see 300 at LINX and LINX goes down?

Been there, numerous times. I still tend to say - it depends
on your type of peers and traffic per peer.

Alexander