[5724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Fri Oct 25 16:37:41 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:37:48 +0100 (BST)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: alex@relcom.eu.net
cc: lists@reflections.mindspring.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ADJ9HSoq1E@virgin.relcom.EU.net>
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 alex@relcom.eu.net wrote:
> > We peer with 30 other networks at the LINX in London, including GSL
> > (Sprintlink), Pipex (uu.net), and EUnet GB (AKA PSI). If you watch the
> There is interesting question - does SprintLink use this peering
> for the traffic _from USA_ to _you_, or for it's UK customers only?
It appears that GSL announces all of their _European_ routes to us,
but we don't see any US SprintLink routes. (Or Asian routes, as I
recall.)
> We have one example - there is Relcom there, and we are presented on
> our M9-IX exchange point. New provider (small-small there, XXX Global
> Networks, the Russian branch) asks us to make peering with them.
> We asked - if this allow us to get traffic _from_ and _to_ XXX Global
> via this link - _no, this will be peering with russian branch only_ was
> the answer. Guess what have we answered? /it's not important what really XXX was/
;-)
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