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Re: Peering versus Transit

  • From: Avi Freedman
  • Date: Tue Oct 01 11:40:43 1996

Well, they say they care - they say they make everyone tell them who they're
peering with (at least one player) to get into the NAP, but I don't know that
they really check that.

Avi

> On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Barney Wolff wrote:
> 
> > Er, why did the exchange operator let you put a router on their switching
> > fabric if you're not peering there with somebody?  Are there actual
> > cases of people with routers at NAPs/MAEs/xIXs who don't peer with anyone?
> 
> Sorry, I did not answer this fully in my last post. They do it because
> they want the $5,700 a month for the connection into the gigaswitch. They
> don't care if you have any peering at all. 
> 
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