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On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 05:56:35PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > This assumes as per a previous point that they exchange routes outside the > region. I'll give you this, as I said I was playing devils advocate. I fully agree with the concept of regionalized exchanging for small players. Also, you can now buy transit cheaper than you can buy longhaul circuits even at perfect utilization. Set local-preference subtract. :) I prefer this to hauling traffic from the east to west to east coast just to use a peer because you only have the one anyhow *coughcogentcough*. > And as per your hot potato assumption even without your peering they > will still be dragging your inbound from the point of interconnection > nearest the source. And quit pro quo, assuming their big tier 1 peers do > the same then it'll be the same on balance anyway (as they will carry > the traffic in the opposite direction and losses/gains will cancel) But the traffic they send to you, they get to dump on your Tier 1 provider a many points all over their network. You'd think that being primarily outbound and in a single location would be a good thing, wouldn't you. :) > Theres single points of failure whether with a peer or a transit if your > network is of that size where you dont have redundant interconnects.. There is still a single point of failure between yourself and your network provider, but that is not their problem. The worst kind of failure is the kind where BGP doesn't die. > Hmm okay this is valid, but really.. do they need to spend much time on > you? Economy of scale and all that.. they can automate building filters, > they dont need to worry about alarming small fry bgp sessions, once set > up theres nothing much to do. You're talking about Tier 1's here... How many engineers does it take to plug in a line card? <answer left as an excercise for the reader> But yes, when you put it all together at the end of the day, it's about trying to make money and prevent competition. Some networks simply see those goals down a different path. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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