[5757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BigISP<-->SmallISP peerings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Sat Oct 26 16:02:28 1996
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: avg@quake.net (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:51:29 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, zachary@zachs.place.org
In-Reply-To: <199610261907.MAA00191@quest.quake.net> from "Vadim Antonov" at Oct 26, 96 12:07:58 pm
> >Hrm. Does it matter if the small ISP already has transit with someone else?
> >In such a case, peering does nothing but shorten the path from SmallISP to
> >BigISP in order to no longer make it go through SmallISPs transit provider.
>
> Yes, but then from the point of view of large ISP the peering is of zero
> value. You see, it has to deliver packets to IXP anyway. OTOH, the
> load on routers, bloated configurations and engineering resources to
> support the additional peering are quite real.
Not quite zero - if you have direct Small/Big vs Small/Transit/Big,
then you bypass any potential problems with Transit.
--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
