Hi folks,

Something interresting also for you the ISPs present here: https://ring.nlnog.net/ we have joined today too, and so can you (given you have an ASN etc and match the other requirements

Slideware from yesterday's RIPE presentation: https://ripe65.ripe.net/presentations/105-RIPE65_NLNOG_RING_Job_Snijders.pdf and even a video: https://ripe65.ripe.net/archives/video/52/ text from the homepage also below.

(always good to see who is doing the stuff)

Greets, Jeroen

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from http://ring.nlnog.net 8<--------------------- * Motivation

I’ve noticed that there are a lot of friendly ‘shell access’ exchange deals between network operators. This makes it easier for parties to debug network issues and troubleshoot ‘from the outside’. A point of view outside your network is absolutely essential, seeing what others see is a useful thing with a variety of network problems. Well known examples are ‘it works for even numbered ip address, but not for odd numbered ip address via this and this route’.

To encourage and provide a streamlined way of cooperating I introduce the ”NLNOG RING”. In essence the deal is very simple: you make a (virtual) machine available to the RING, and you gain access on all servers which are part of the project, hence the name “RING”.

A great example would be to launch a traceroute from 80 servers in different networks and quickly get the results instead of waiting till somebody has the time to run some tests for you.

* Participation

Participation is open to everybody who meets the following requirements:

You are a network operator The organisation you work for has BGP routers connected to the ”Default Free Zone” and maybe even IXP’s. Your organisation has its own ASN, IPv4 and IPv6 prefix(es). You have enable or configure rights on those routers. You are involved in the networkers community. You have permission from your organisation to become involved in the NLNOG RING. ---------------------->8