[18665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Thu Aug 13 17:16:02 1998
From: alex@nac.net
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:38:52 -0400 (EDT)
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
cc: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu, alex@nt.nac.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813154601.9917D-100000@shell.inch.com>
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Sean M. Doran wrote:
>
> > Uhm, OK, so what's the difference between that and a customer connection
> > across which BGP is spoken?
There are two differences:
Purchased
PX Customer Connection
== ===================
$: $0 >$0
Routes: Just the All
other providers'
> The question above is rather interesting, and what I'd like to know is
> what are the various types of "peering" that various ISPs have arranged
> between each other?
I'd think there are two; public exchange (MAE's, etc), and PX (it is be a
PtP DS[1|3], Frame PVC, ATM VC, whatever.
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