[32206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Trusting BGP sessions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Nov 14 15:33:39 2000
Date: 14 Nov 2000 12:29:40 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Mon, 13 November 2000, David Diaz wrote:
> The cabal makes jokes "Officially there is no cabal."
> In reality the fact is that peering is a trust event. You are
Peering is a business decision. It is not an engineering decision
nor a trust event.
Technically, can a peer BGP session do any more or less damage to
your network than a customer BGP session? The protocol is identical.
