[tech] WAIX Routing ETA

[David Basden]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:29:52PM +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 19:58 +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 
> >What I can do is provide UCC with a list of networks that are WAIX. We
> >can then load that list into the router. The only problem is the
> >potential liability if someone is leaching and WAIX is down...
> 
> This would of course give us the advantage of not having to have WAIX
> ips for machines. Would there be any reliable way to know if WAIX
> routing is down?

It's not too hard to see if the routes are being advertised to WAIX at
any point in time. The thing is that you want to make sure that other
WAIX peers are going to be honouring that path to get to WAIX. If
a theoretical WAIX peer 'DodgyNet' messed up it's router config,
and ignored the advertisements from WAIX, everything could seem
fine (routes being advertised, outbound traffic from UCC goes via
WAIX), but the data going back to UCC could be via a charged link.

It's not a huge problem, unless of course someone is mirroring
DeadRat Linux from DodgyNet, and UCC gets charged by the meg. Low
chance, but high cost.

David