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The early days of peering

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sat Jun 02 04:41:46 2001

While cleaning up some old mail, I came across this old note
about the early days of interconnecting networks.  I especially
like the error counters, it appears congestion/packet drops have
been a peering issue since the very earliest days.

Circa September 1999:

==================================== 

Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX)
- ----------------------------------

The T1 Line to CERFNet became operational linking CERFNet to
the other CIX member network providers (Alternet and PSINet).

Traffic statistics are being gathered via SNMP and reports are
being generated.  The following report outlines CIX-WEST usage
for the month of August 1991.

CIX           In                                Out
Member            Octets     Packets    Errors      Octets     Packets    Errors
- ------------  --------------------------------  --------------------------------
Alternet      6405681877    23290775      2823  2436041753    18012204         0
CERFNet        185674302     1922536    453890   564414690     3092209         0
PSINet        2615511850    18930171        34  6166635910    22541248      6777

Starting: Aug 7 1991 at 09:27
Ending: Aug 31 1991 at 23:54
SNMP Polling Intervals: 2590
SNMP Polling Frequency: 15 minutes

In - data entering the CIX member network
Out - data exiting the CIX member network

At the present time, approximately 370 networks within Alternet,
CERFNet, and PSINet are using the CIX-WEST.

Send mail to [email protected] for information regarding the CIX.

Mark Fedor  [email protected]