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Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Tue May 06 01:50:35 1997

[email protected] (Craig Nordin) writes:

> Routing Question:
> 
> If backbone providers A, B, and C are fully peering with one another
> and little guy X has no peering with A but does with B and C.  Will
> packets still travel from X(customer) to A(customer) and back again?

Yes, via B or C.  That is to say that it's sufficient to buy transit once,
assuming the connectivity between A, B and C is working.  Note that this
isn't always the case.  ;-(

Tony
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