[6bone] free transit

[Jeroen Massar]

Hans Goes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> While we are moving from our old router (in AS1890) to our 
> new router (in
> AS12702) we also limit the amount of prefixes we receive of our peers.
> 
> But..... Why is almost every peer giving free transit to everyone ?
>
> Most peers of us give us more than 300 prefixes. I don't get this.

That's the way of the 6bone. RIR space doesn't have this problem that
much.
And that 300 number are all the prefixes currently in the routing table
:)

> If we want to move on with ipv6 everyone needs to check their
> access-lists/prefix-lists to limit this.

You are probably peering with all the other TLA's and they, like you,
want connectivity to the rest of the IPv6 internet as there are only
a few real transit-only providers most people chose to do free transit
and indeed this is not a good thing.

> We already shutdown our far away peers to south-america 
> because they don't make sense. I guess everyone must think about this.
> South-America peers can connect to America providers instead 
> of Europe...

Indeed, unless you have a big worldwide IPv6 network like some lucky
people have.

You might want to check up on:
http://ip6.de.easynet.net/ipv6-minimum-peering.txt
and
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-savola-v6ops-6bone-mess-01.txt

Greets,
 Jeroen