[4800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael S. Ramsey)
Sun Sep 29 14:49:52 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael S. Ramsey" <msr@interpath.net>
Reply-To: "Michael S. Ramsey" <msr@interpath.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2103.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Worse, the current technology used at the exchange points could
> encourage abuse. What is to stop anyone connected to an exchange from
> simply dumping packets anonymously at the link level into the various
> inter-exchange providers' routers and getting free transit?
Typically peers configure their routers so as to keep routes learned via a
peer internal, and not advertised to other peers. Therefore, you _can_
dump all of your traffic to one of your peers, but your traffic will not
come back to you via that same peer, because they are not announcing your
routes to anyone else. Real transit _requires_ that the transit provider
advertise your routes to other providers. Nothing less will work.
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