Connect - Main Room (Wed, 09:00)
This talk explains how people can engage with PeeringDB's Product Committee.
It describes the decision making process in high level and then looks at the hurdles and the questions the Product Committee thinks about.
It then moves on how to engage with PeeringDB and how its volunteers engage with its users.
Peering Manager is an open source project which aims to help networks with their peering workflows. It is able to record BGP sessions, usually set up on the edge of an autonomous system, to be able to automate and smooth their management.
Being able to expose publicly a peering portal for others to request peering with a network has been a long-lasting feature request from Peering Manager users. This feature is now being brought to life. This talk will be about showing how to set up such a port…
Unknown unicast on shared peering LANs is widely assumed to be transient. This case study presents the opposite: a self-perpetuating mechanism via RFC 4861 §7.3.1 forward-progress confirmation, where a single MAC change can leave a stale neighbour entry REACHABLE indefinitely while customer traffic — HTTPS SNI, signalling, residential 999 calls — is flooded to hundreds of member ports. A reproducible demonstration was published in November 2024. The talk presents the mechanism at the kernel and…
For most of its history, the IXP directory model has been based on the assumption that an IXP is a peering LAN. A member connects to it using an ASN and a port and the directory describes this relationship. IXPDB, PeeringDB and the tools built on top of them all reflect this model. Recent work in the Connect Working Group has rightly advocated for better authoritative IRR data in the directory layer and the IXPDB IRR implementation is one outcome of this.
However, the operational reality at man…
RouteViews now operates 50+ collectors with hundreds of peering sessions, and every session has a storage and operational cost. This talk introduces a per-session value metric — the unique information each session adds across edges, paths, prefixes, origins, and shorter paths. Examples spanning a Tier-1, two content providers, a regional provider, and a regional peer show that edge networks with full routes carry the unique signal, while Tier-1 transit and peer-only sessions contribute less inf…