[189090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Alcantar)
Tue May 3 19:02:12 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Carlos Alcantar <carlos@race.com>
To: Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 23:02:05 +0000
In-Reply-To: <572924EE.2020606@ispn.net>
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