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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote: > > Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > I assume Vijay meant the cost of a port for private peering, in which case > > if you private with all your peers and you have a lot of small peers thats > > going to be a lot of cost for a few kbps of traffic > > I'm having trouble parsing this. You connect your FE or GE port to an > ISL/802.11q trunk to the colo's/IX switch. Then either a)everyone is in > the same broadcast domain (dumb but no config), or there's a VLAN on > that trunk from/to you to your peer(s). Save for the colo's/IX > administrative/xconnect fee, where's the "lot of cost"? This is private vs public.. Steve
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