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Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue May 6 01:52:30 1997

To: cnordin@ever.just.net (Craig Nordin)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
Date: 05 May 1997 22:43:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: cnordin@ever.just.net's message of 6 May 97 05:20:55 GMT


cnordin@ever.just.net (Craig Nordin) writes:

> Routing Question:
> 
> If backbone providers A, B, and C are fully peering with one another
> and little guy X has no peering with A but does with B and C.  Will
> packets still travel from X(customer) to A(customer) and back again?

Yes, via B or C.  That is to say that it's sufficient to buy transit once,
assuming the connectivity between A, B and C is working.  Note that this
isn't always the case.  ;-(

Tony

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