[5890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering is a lot of work.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noam Freedman)
Tue Oct 29 17:06:31 1996
From: Noam Freedman <noam@noam.com>
To: justin@erols.com (Justin W. Newton)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:54:41 -0600 (CST)
Cc: kwe@6SigmaNets.com, robert@portal.dx.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0b36.32.19961029151024.016dcdc0@justin.erols.com> from "Justin W. Newton" at Oct 29, 96 03:10:26 pm
> One can point default at someone whether or not they are peering with the
> person. I am somewhat confused by the thought that people believe that
> they need to be peering with someone to have that person point default at
> them. I could (I don't, but I could), point default at /anyone/ on the
> same switch fabric as me, whether they are peering with me or not. Why do
> people continue to tie these 2 issues together?
At the MAEs, this is correct. However, for those NAPs running ATM switches,
this is not the case.
- Noam
