[61925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless, Verio and/or Level 3 port blocking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Mason)
Tue Sep 9 19:50:27 2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:33:52 +0100
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
William Devine II <william@smartguys.net>
From: Ian Mason <nanog@ian.co.uk>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E19wSQM-000706-UT@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 21:15 08/09/2003, Randy Bush wrote:
> > We use C&W directly and Verio/Level3 through a peer.
>
>a peer gives you their peer or transit routes?
>randy
I've given peers other peer routes before now, but not transit (except in
emergencies). I've done it for several reasons:-
1) You can have transit to peers (X, Y and Z) at LINX if I can have transit
to peers (A, B, and C) at MAE-East.
2) My bandwidth/routes/whatever don't meet your peering policy but I can
bribe you with access to a certain set of routes. [At one time I had a
small customer base and a single /19 but very wide spread peering, often
with big ASs. In fact I'm pretty sure I had more peers than customers at
some points. ;-)]
3) You're a mate, and the marginal cost to me is small.
Ian
