[176340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Rogers)
Tue Nov 25 14:02:23 2014
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:56:56 -0500
From: Chris Rogers <crogers@inerail.net>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I know a couple networks that offer to sell transit over exchanges that
permit it, but require that you take a private VLAN on the exchange.
Some exchanges offer private VLANs, others don't.
Regards,
Chris Rogers
+1.302.357.3696 x2110
http://inerail.net/
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 25/11/2014 18:47, Colton Conor wrote:
> > Is this possible?
>
> it depends. Some transit providers will decline to do this because it can
> impact on their margin. Most IXPs don't have a problem with it, but some
> do - although it's not clear how they can tell which packets are transit
> and which are peering.
>
> Nick
>
>
