[4900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Tue Oct 1 10:14:29 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:09:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <324fe2740.c29@databus.databus.com>
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Barney Wolff wrote:
> Er, why did the exchange operator let you put a router on their switching
> fabric if you're not peering there with somebody? Are there actual
> cases of people with routers at NAPs/MAEs/xIXs who don't peer with anyone?
Sorry, I did not answer this fully in my last post. They do it because
they want the $5,700 a month for the connection into the gigaswitch. They
don't care if you have any peering at all.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
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