[125012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Exchange Configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 8 14:14:30 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <01f101cad745$54c98a50$fe5c9ef0$@net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:08:30 -0700
To: "Aaron Wendel" <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
> 3a) If no: Do participants typically preference exchange-learned
> routes over other sources?
>
> Yes. As far as I know all our members set routes learned through the
> exchange fabric higher than anything else. That's kind of the point as
> exchange traffic is free so you always want to use it first.
>
Actually, the order of preference is usually:
1. Private Interconnects (direct private peering)
2. Non-metered paid peering/transit
3. Exchange Points
4. Metered paid peering/transit
Owen
