Re: "Peering Router"

Brandon Butterworth via NANOG <[email protected]>
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On 12/05/2026 06:49:40, "Mark Tinka via NANOG" <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>A dedicated peering router also ensures you eliminate providing transit to a peer if you make a configuration error, as the peering router neither carries the DFZ nor 0/0, ::/0.

The reason we started doing that way back was IX used to be
quite fragile with regular storms that would often take out
connected routers too.

We still have a frangible peering router per IX port limiting
blast radius.

brandon

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