[Outages-discussion] [outages] Equinix Exchange contacts

[Jay Ashworth]

I concur:

The people you want to have this conversation with are over on NANOG.

On November 21, 2017 11:51:44 AM EST, James Cornman <james at atlanticmetro.net> wrote:
>Thanks for moving. I was unaware of this list.
>
>In my opinion, this requirement is a bit extraneous, however the
>downstream
>customer with this mandate is pretty passionate about this
>configuration.
>That being said, the benefit is that if any peer has a preference for
>either one of our next hops (we cant control their route selection to
>ensure they do ECMP), we still get the upside of the extra capacity, as
>well as port level redundancy. I can't imagine having 1 more mac
>address in
>the exchange point's port-security criteria is overly complicated. That
>apparently is the biggest point of contention with Equinix thus far,
>since
>its "non standard". To note, we're not even requiring different chassis
>on
>the exchange point side; just want to take advantage of the MC LAG on
>our
>side so from the Equinix side, its pretty simple to make us go away :)
>
>-James
>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Hugo Slabbert
><hslabbert at demonware.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Moved to outages-discussion.
>>
>> This seems like outages-discussion at outages.org at best and likely
>more
>> suited to nanog.  I don't see anything related to an outage on this.
>>
>> On the surface, why not do discrete L3 links and equal-cost across
>the
>> members rather than shoving L2 redundancy and complexity (MC-LAG) in
>the
>> middle only to stuff L3 redundancy back over top of it (multiple IPs
>&
>> discrete routing protocol sessions)?
>>
>> --
>> Hugo
>>
>> On Tue 2017-Nov-21 11:14:51 -0500, Chad Austin via Outages <
>> outages at outages.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can you describe what the end result would look like?
>>>
>>> -Chad
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/21/2017 11:11 AM, James Cornman via Outages wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone present with some contacts / influence with Equinix
>regarding
>>>> their Exchange product?
>>>>
>>>> We're working to establish what they consider a unique situation
>thats
>>>> not supported, and we're mostly getting told NO from the Equinix
>NOC w/o
>>>> any escalation, and I'm looking to get someone with more technical
>>>> expertise to talk to.
>>>>
>>>> We're looking to establish 2x10Gbps connections in an LACP LAG,
>with 2
>>>> IP addresses; 1 per MC LAG member, so we get the benefit of
>redundancy and
>>>> capacity. Apparently the 2 IP address thing is the current show
>stopper. I
>>>> haven't received any meaningful feedback as to whether this is a
>political
>>>> problem or a technical one.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, Other exchange points support this such as Any2 and NYIIX,
>etc.
>>>>
>>>> -James
>>>>
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>>>>
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>
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