State of the Internet: Experiences of a Small ISP in Canada
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Barrie Connex is a small ISP in Ontario. Bconnex.net has been up for 3 years in Barrie, Ontario. 2 staffed offices and 2 POPs. Coverage is done by remote call forwarding.
They are connected to Sprint.
All internal networks are switched Ethernet 10/100. They use T1s to connect everything. There are four downstream ISPs. They are "sorta" multihomed to Shaw fiber and Sprint Canada. They are planning local peering with another ISP in Toronto.
Technical problems
- Address Space
- Architecting for growth
- Abuse
Address Space
Too many small blocks (three /23s)
Sprint filters crunch one of these blocks
Provider-specific space (two sets of blocks)
- Load Balancing
Network upheaval
- Vendor Leverage
They don't have enough Class C's (21) to apply for a provider independent block from ARIN.
Architecting for Growth
Network Abuse
- Denial of Service
- Tracking of Problem Sources
- Caller ID not provisioned on ISDN by default.
- Legal implications
- First court date coming up
- Updating Filters
- Customer access filters
- We don;t take MAPS because we want to make the decisions.
- Ingress/egress filters
The Root of All Evil is the lack of Money to get this done.
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