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> >On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote: >> What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to >> get to folks who >> buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace. > >You can already do this. > >Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes. >Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can >now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters. It will become a pain to >load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased >expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an >exchange point this is an alternative. > I believe Sprint offers a BGP option to give only routes from Sprint transit customers. Or at least, they used to. You do pay the full rates, of course. Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Mueller [email protected] Sr. Network Engineer Best Internet Communications, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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