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Re: Open Peers at PAIX

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Thu Jun 28 16:00:36 2001

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:55:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:

> These are the only large service provider networks I see listed.
> AboveNet would probably peer with a bum on the street outside PAIX if
> he could speak BGP, but AFAIK GBLX's requirements were at least 3
> locations and bi-costal at a minimium. If I remember correctly Exodus
> is also slightly picky about its "ghetto peers", probably falling
> somewhere the middle of the other two.

come on richard... you know that Exodus has an open peering policy... :)

of course, exodus has all their peering information online

http://bengi.exodus.net/external/peering.html

> Seems almost all the larger service providers are requiring at least
> bi-costal these days.

which isnt that much of a big deal today. x-country oc3s are what, 10k per
month now?

Christian


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