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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 [email protected] wrote: > > We peer with 30 other networks at the LINX in London, including GSL > > (Sprintlink), Pipex (uu.net), and EUnet GB (AKA PSI). If you watch the > There is interesting question - does SprintLink use this peering > for the traffic _from USA_ to _you_, or for it's UK customers only? It appears that GSL announces all of their _European_ routes to us, but we don't see any US SprintLink routes. (Or Asian routes, as I recall.) > We have one example - there is Relcom there, and we are presented on > our M9-IX exchange point. New provider (small-small there, XXX Global > Networks, the Russian branch) asks us to make peering with them. > We asked - if this allow us to get traffic _from_ and _to_ XXX Global > via this link - _no, this will be peering with russian branch only_ was > the answer. Guess what have we answered? /it's not important what really XXX was/ ;-) -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 http://www.uk.vbc.net VBCnet West +1 408 971 2682 fax +1 408 971 2684 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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