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On Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 10:43:51AM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote: > Level 3 and Cogent can't be operating in a vacuums - if we can get to > Kevin Bacon in 6 degrees, Level 3 and Cogent should be able to get to > each other in under 30 hops through other providers. > > And why isn't this apparently happening automatically? Pardon the > density of my brain matter here, but I thought that was what BGP was all > about? Yes, it could have - I'm led to believe that one of the parties does purchase transit. However, moving all that traffic over transit rather than peering would cost them a significant amount of money - and as they're running their transit service at extremely low cost, they probably would find it hard to fund the use of transit to reach the other party. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director | * Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: [email protected] *
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