[145762] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Peers as basis of available routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Oct 19 14:21:40 2011
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:20:42 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <BBE700A0-AEED-4DBA-9E30-D989D25E0F65@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/19/2011 12:48 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 3:00 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
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>> Dont mix up peering and transit connections!
>
> I've nearly given up on this. I've heard many a small provider say they are "Peering" with level3 when they mean "we are buying transit from Level3".
>
> Many people equate having BGP up with them to mean something else.
And yet I might pay for transit from Sprint, but decide to limit routes
to just between us (which is peering, but technically I'm paying for
transit).
Terminology has always been a blast.
Jack
