On the peering of pTLAs...

[Alain Durand]

Networking is so fun !!! Especially in europe ;-)

I'm trying to figure out who I should peer with in the new addressing plan.
I know the connection from Renater/france to the US is &*^*&^*&^*&%^^%^&,
so I'm looking mostly for european peers.

It's late (11pm local time), networks should be quiet, time for some pings &
traceroutes on the underlaying IPv4 topology.

For each site, I'm giving the average RTT from G6, % of packet loss
and the approximate route.

IPv4 connectivity of 6bone core sites in Europe to G6:

Site               RTT packet route
                         loss
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
TELEBIT/DK         244ms   0% Ten34UK-stockholm-dk
SICS/SE            50ms    0% Ten34UK-stockholm-se
G6/FR                         LOCAL
JOIN/DE            45ms    0% Ten34DE-frankfort-muenster
SURFNET/NL         85ms   40% Ten34UK-stockholm-amsterdam
IFB/GB             605ms  20% washington-sprint-insnet-ifb
CSELT/IT           300ms  20% Ten34UK-stockholm-ParisEbone-interbusinessIT
UUNET-UK/GB        200ms   0% washington-pipex-UK
UNI-C/dk           80ms    0% Ten34UK-stockholm-dk
ATT-LABS-EUROPE/CH 460ms   0% ten34Londre-stockholm-amsterdam-unisrc-att
SWISS-TELECOM/CH              no valid record in database
NETCOM-UK/GB       270ms  10% washington-netcom-netcomUK
SWITCH/CH          40ms    0% ten34DE-ten34CH-switch
JANET/GB           230ms  20% ten34UK-janet
STUBA/SK           180ms   0%
ten34DE-amsterdam-stockholm-munichEbone-bratislava
INFN-CNAF/IT       50ms    0% ten34DE-ten34IT-infn
INR/RU             2500ms 60% washington-sprint-dtag.de-moscow-inr

If other sites had similar informations on their connectivity,
I would be happy to get them to help me decide on the peering.

	- Alain.