[18672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Aug 13 19:04:18 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:47:09 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199808131449.HAA14325@elite.exodus.net>; from Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net> on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:49:06AM -0700
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:49:06AM -0700, Robert Bowman wrote:
> And, in actuality, the business decision is quite easy--BBN
> isn't nearly enough of a player to pull a stunt like this. Obviously their egos
> are larger than their network, but egos don't route packets very well.
I can't imagine why they might have thought they would be... UUnet
apparently isn't; and their backbone hauls a _lot_ more bytes than
BBN's does...
Cheers,
-- jra
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