Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[Brian Longwe <brian at pch.net>]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Johann Botha wrote:

> Hi ALAIN                                         > at 2003.05.13_16:59:08_+0200
>
> > > > The best way to show if  an IX is needed is the get from each ISP, real
> > > > statistics about local traffic sent overseas and how percent of bandwith
> > > > it represents.
> > >
> > > but v. often this is very difficult to establish until you have actually
> > > offloaded the local traffic (via an exchange?)
> >
> > Tools are available for that. I know  we can not get statistics with 0% of
> > errors
>
> URLs ?
>
> most of the ISPs we are talking about dont have AS numbers, so you cant just
> collect netflow with nexthop AS info. you would need to setup some form of
> directory of network blocks as a first step.
>

if you can get them to disclose that....

;-)

Longwe


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