Re: IXes and AS length

2014-12-18 Thread Ammar Zuberi
That’s exactly what I was thinking… Equinix doesn’t really have anything to do with that part of the peering ecology. > On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Clayton Zekelman wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how they can do that. Equinix is Layer 2 - your peering > parameters are between you and your pe

Re: IXes and AS length

2014-12-18 Thread Bill Woodcock
I believe you have misunderstood Equinix's policy. I believe the generally-applied policy is that you may not have multiple MAC addresses on the same physical port, which typically means that you can't easily peer using multiple ASes directly on the exchange switch fabric. If you believe tha

Re: IXes and AS length

2014-12-18 Thread Clayton Zekelman
I'm not sure how they can do that. Equinix is Layer 2 - your peering parameters are between you and your peer? At 12:52 PM 18/12/2014, Mike Hammett wrote: So I just found out that the IX we're looking to hook up with (Equinix) doesn't allow downstream ASes. How does that functionally wor