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Re: BigISP<-->SmallISP peerings

  • From: Andrew Partan
  • Date: Sat Oct 26 15:59:17 1996 
> >Hrm.  Does it matter if the small ISP already has transit with someone else?
> >In such a case, peering does nothing but shorten the path from SmallISP to
> >BigISP in order to no longer make it go through SmallISPs transit provider.
> 
> Yes, but then from the point of view of large ISP the peering is of zero
> value.  You see, it has to deliver packets to IXP anyway.  OTOH, the
> load on routers, bloated configurations and engineering resources to
> support the additional peering are quite real.

Not quite zero - if you have direct Small/Big vs Small/Transit/Big,
then you bypass any potential problems with Transit.
	[email protected] (Andrew Partan)
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