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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BBN Peering issues
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, John Butler wrote: > This statement is deluded to say the least. BBN peers with most other > major backbone providers, and they have one of the fastest, most > reliable networks in the world. Say Ms. Hancock ends up buying transit > from Digex or UUnet. Under most current hot-potato routing schemes, that > carrier will drop the packet at the closest BBN peering point, and the But...do Above.net and Exodus.net actually buy transit from anyone, or are they each large enough that they just connect to the various NAPs and have free peering with all the other major networks? If they don't buy transit from any other backbone, and lose peering with BBN, what path will packets between BBN and either of the two above take? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Spammers will be winnuked or Network Administrator | drawn and quartered...whichever Florida Digital Turnpike | is more convenient. ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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