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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Peering versus Transit
I think Mr. Simpson was referring to the outbound traffic in this case, not FULL transit. Of course you have to manage a way for that traffic's return packets to find you. In a lot of ISPs cases, the outbound traffic is a 3:1 ratio. So if you can dump your outbound traffic onto an unknowing IXP member, your probably in luck. Then just simply order an SMDS connection to CIX for the return path at ever-so-fast lightspeed. > > On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > > Worse, the current technology used at the exchange points could > > encourage abuse. What is to stop anyone connected to an exchange from > > simply dumping packets anonymously at the link level into the various > > inter-exchange providers' routers and getting free transit? > > Typically peers configure their routers so as to keep routes learned via a > peer internal, and not advertised to other peers. Therefore, you _can_ > dump all of your traffic to one of your peers, but your traffic will not > come back to you via that same peer, because they are not announcing your > routes to anyone else. Real transit _requires_ that the transit provider > advertise your routes to other providers. Nothing less will work. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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