[18603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Wed Aug 12 10:37:32 1998
X-Envelope-To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@skipper.robotics.net>
cc: Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808121003300.5734-100000@skipper.robotics.net>
> Well basically you need to think of it like this. If the providers that
> are getting cut were actually "peers" of BBN, then BBN would feal the
> pain, in fact they are not "peers". BBN can cut them off their network and
> will not feal a thing. BBN customers will still be able to reach the cut
> ISPs from their transit providers. If the providers were "peer" then when
> BBN tried to cut them they both would feal the pain and BBN would most
> likley turn it back up in a hour or so.
I was under the impression that, by this definition, BBN considered Exodus
to be a "peer". Is this not the case?
