On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM Douglas Fischer <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > But I have seen a reasonably large scenario in which the IXP operator, > maintaining the MLPA LAN with the pair of Route-Servers, adds > another participant with the SAME ASN as the route-servers, > and through this participant starts to sell traffic.
Of course they can sell transit. The reason they don't is that it has the potential to create a conflict of interest. When your customer is also a competitor and your customer suffers an outage that's your fault... Well, you see where this is going. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/