[79028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T1 vs. T2 [WAS: Apology: [Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Mon Mar 28 21:16:55 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050329012928.GD5084@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:15:53 -0500
To: Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:29 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>> and if you peer with all networks in the 'transit free zone' then you
>> too become
>> transit free also.
>
> er.. hate to rain on your parade but if I peer with everyone
> i need/want to exchange traffic with, i am transit-free, even
> if I -NEVER- touch any other part of the commercial Internet...
> my packets get to where they need to go and all packets I want
> get to me. my life is good ... even if I only appear as vestigal
> to the commercial Internet, if I appear at all.
Absolutely correct.
> how would you classify such a network? T1, T2, ODDBALL-0,
> non-Internet-265, ???
I doubt it is a tier. I am certain it is not an "Internet" network if
it does not have connectivity to substantially all other Internet
networks.
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TTFN,
patrick
