[28006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peering wars revisited? PSI vs Exodus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulf Zimmermann)
Tue Apr 4 17:12:33 2000
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:08:27 -0700
From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>,
Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <10746.954832239@sunf25>; from simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:10:39AM +0100
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:10:39AM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
> >4. Exodus certainly had to tell its content providers that they were
> >gong to face problems in getting to somewhere between 5 and 10% of
> >the Internet.
>
> I guess this just depends on whether Exodus has any transit or not, and
> whether it's already congested.
>
> Given that the new BGP path from Exodus to PSI (as posted earlier) is only
> one hop longer, is it really going to cause *that* many problems to
> Exodus' customers?
When I checked going to www.psi.net, I had several hops inside of
Sprintlink with 10-30% packet loss. So, yes, I would say it causes problems.
>
> Simon
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Regards, Ulf.
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