[29378] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: Private and Public Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Tue Jun 20 08:32:57 2000
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:29:35 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000620082935.B16323@eiv.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In-Reply-To: <29C363D591B1D211B6BF0090273C2380E15E2C@silicon.corp.equinix.com>; from lpatterson@equinix.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:05:43PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:05:43PM -0700, Lane Patterson wrote:
>
> 1. if ISP A peers with ISP B through a switch run by an exchange
> point operator, this is generally considered to be public peering. The same
> switch may be aggregating many other ISP's giving O(N^^2) peering
> relationships.
Yes, but if ISP A peers with ISP B in the woods, does anybody snoop the
packets?