[18690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Ritter)
Fri Aug 14 10:46:24 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:00:51 -0400
To: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
From: Dan Ritter <dsr@bbn.com>
Cc: fez@mindspring.net (John Butler), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199808131449.HAA14325@elite.exodus.net>
At 07:49 AM 19980813 -0700, Robert Bowman wrote:
>You forgot one circumstance, the most likely in this situation... Exodus isn't
>going to buy any transit. Nor are the other folks that BBN is trying to cut
>off. Let's face the facts, BBN is only 1.85% of my traffic. By all accounts,
>we estimate to be in the area of 10-30% of their traffic. Lots of luck. We
>actually see a massively inverted benefit scale in this particular situation.
I'm not speaking for the company here. When I do that, I wear a different hat.
Are you seriously under the impression that 10-30% of BBN traffic is sent to
Exodus?
And that 10% of BBN's traffic equals 1.85% of Exodus's?
Boggle.
-dsr-
Dan Ritter dsr@bbn.com
ISE New England Region 617.873.4514
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