[4903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Oct 1 11:34:49 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:15:25 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: barney@databus.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961001100726.23575D-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Oct 1, 96 10:09:01 am
Well, they say they care - they say they make everyone tell them who they're
peering with (at least one player) to get into the NAP, but I don't know that
they really check that.
Avi
> 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.
>
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