[39207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Peers at PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Thu Jun 28 16:14:06 2001
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:03:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
Cc: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Christian Nielsen wrote:
> 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... :)
Peering sluts?
> > 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?
And GRE is free... A lesson a couple of those bicostal peers on that list
have taught us. :P
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