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Re: PAIX (was Re: Interconnects)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Sat May 18 16:58:45 2002

Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:58:02 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sat May 18, 2002 at 04:51:27PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> One BGP session instead of dozens is more convenient.  Maybe not more
> useful for engineering, but certainly less work than negotiating and
> configuring a bunch of sessions for bilateral peering.

I think you'll find that the MLPA at AADS just means that you can get
peering with all the people who have signed up, without negotiating them
all seperately. You still need to setup individual BGP sessions to each
of them.

Simon
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