State of the Internet: Experiences of a Small ISP in New Mexico

John Brown

Table of Contents

• Stan Barber's Notes
• February 1998 NANOG Home Page

Stan Barber's Notes

• Started in Jun 1996
  • Decided to stay out of the dialup market

• Servicing New Mexico and the Bay Area
  • Expanding into Utah and other areas

Connectivity is to Pac*Bell and Digex and MCI (All T-1)

Expecting to have a Fractional DS-3 in the Bay Area real soon now

Doing BGP with our upstream providers

Most folks are connected via ISDN.

We also use T-1 and Frame (especially in the Bay Area)

Top Issues

• Filtering
• Local Exchange Point access
• Better Local Upstream connectivity

Filtering

• Unwanted Data (NEWS, SPAM)
  • Hard to do. Takes lots of time.
• We need to be able to filtering down to the user level
• We don't accept binaries in our spool
  • We are very concerned about ownership of images and getting sued for spooling
  • The image.
• DoS Attacks (SMURFS, SYN Flood, etc)
• Takes lots of time
• We don't get quick help from the upstreams on getting this filtered.
  • The folks who could install the filter are not available.
  • The provider is worried about the impact of filters on their router performance.
• Inter-provider help is tracking down the source of attacks is problematical.
• More filtering at the edges would be good.
  • Bogus Route Announcements
    • Lots of more specifics

Local Exchange Points

• Local Exchanges are Good.
  • Keep local traffic local
• Most exchanges are on the E/W coast
  • Long install lead time

Better Local Upstream

• DS3 service is not available in our market locations
  • Must be back-hauled from outside New Mexico
  • Long install lead time