[1511] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Alternate Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alison@osc.edu)
Fri Oct 18 19:14:50 1991
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 18:13:19 -0400
From: alison@osc.edu
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com, lear@turbo.bio.net
I don't think you can assume the CIX router is on the same subnet
as the NSFNET router. GIven that I decide to split my traffic (for
example), it's likely that I would send academic traffic out thru
Columbus and commercial traffic out thru Cleveland. Once I am not
using the same gateway, then I may see some real advantages in
geographic separation. For one thing, maybe I can negotiate a rate
from one of my backbone suppliers to let me do only fallback routing
thru them at a cheaper rate....
