[2725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elise Gerich)
Tue Apr 30 10:15:40 1996
From: Elise Gerich <epg@merit.edu>
To: amarashi@interglobe.com (Ali Marashi)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:10:05 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960429082737.24165B-100000@seattle.interglobe.com> from "Ali Marashi" at Apr 29, 96 09:57:56 am
The organizations that export/import routes via the
route servers may find:
1) the routers have fewer configured peers therefore resulting
in less load on the routers
2) the route servers have route flap dampening implemented thereby
insulating the peer from a high number of routing updates
3) the route servers do the routing computations which results
in freeing significant amounts of processing time on the peer
routers
4) a reduction in the time and energy (people resources) needed to
establish new peering relationships
--Elise
>Ali Marashi writes:
>
>
> I had a few questions to direct to the group at large that I believe are
> of a "network operational" nature.
>
> (1) I have heard that Sprint and MCI currently require an organization to
> peer with them at a minimum of three exchange points, where one must be on
> a different coast. I have been unable to confirm this directly from the
> sources yet. Would anyone care to share what knowledge they have on the
> subject? Are any other large providers (e.g., ANS) adhering to similar
> policies? As Internet traffic increases across the large backbones, could
> this be a trend that continues with other providers?
>
> (2) Could anyone share opinions/facts regarding why organizations may or
> may not exchange routes via the Route Servers rather than direct peering
> relationships at the NAPs?
>
> Thank you for any information/enlightenment.
> Ali....
>
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