IXP

[arnold at nipper.de (Arnold Nipper)]

On 24.04.2009 03:48 Paul Vixie wrote

> "Bill Woodcock" <woody at pch.net> writes:
> 
>> ... Nobody's arguing against VLANs.  Paul's argument was that VLANs
>> rendered shared subnets obsolete, and everybody else has been rebutting
>> that. Not saying that VLANs shouldn't be used.
> 
> i think i saw several folks, not just stephen, say virtual wire was how
> they'd do an IXP today if they had to start from scratch.  i know that
> for many here, starting from scratch isn't a reachable worldview, and so
> i've tagged most of the defenses of shared subnets with that caveat.  the
> question i was answering was from someone starting from scratch, and when
> starting an IXP from scratch, a shared subnet would be just crazy talk.

I like to disagree here, Paul.



Best regards,
Arnold
-- 
Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
email: arnold at nipper.de       phone: +49 6224 9259 299
mobile: +49 172 2650958         fax: +49 6224 9259 333

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 250 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20090424/8461ab2a/attachment.bin>