Saku Ytti wrote: > > If customer does not react, put it on quarantine VLAN. This can be > automated too. Wrong MTU => open internal case, contact customers > email, no customer response in N days, quarantine VLAN. > > Even the most outrageous success stories in the world, majority of the > people would have said before attempting that it won't work, because > that is safe and easy. And usually they are right, most things don't > work, but it's very difficult to actually know without trying what > works and what does. > Luckily we have actual IXPs running big and small VLAN MTUs, even > without this monitoring capability, and it Internet still works. > Imo, there is not enough value for an IXP to do such monitoring, especially assuming we agree on Richard Steenbergen's conclusion in his presentation.
Promoting that kind of monitoring as a differentiator will surely help adding an extra bullet point on marketing material, but will be a trivial part in the decision process of a potential customer. --Aris
