Re: [GROW] Last Call: <draft-ietf-grow-blackholing-00.txt> (BLACKHOLE BG

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:27:52AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> You could make an ixp have a next-hop internal to the fabric which was the
> discard, but I dont' think that solves the larger problem of: "oh, our ixp
> fabric is full of packets :(" since the participants would still be putting
> packets  onto the fabric.
This is what DECIX is doing: a special next-hop IP which ARPs to a special
MAC address which is MAC-ACL-filtered at all ingress ports to the fabric -
so the nice effect is "fabric not full" (plus "participant interface not
full").

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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