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Re: Worldly Thoughts
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 21:16:20 -0700
This is a _very_ interesting question in light of what I just posted... the CIX has the (odd, these days) feature that peering is mandatory for all, and so large providers don't get to choose whether or not they want to haul traffic across the country for these people.
There is no such thing as mandatory peering. Several folks on the SMDS cloud purposely do not peer with certain other folks on the same cloud. Everybody peers with the CIX routers, though, and with third-party BGP routes that means most traffic is just point to point. (The SMDS access lists are not perfect, so there are some in-and-out cases for various endpoint pairs.)
ps. We'd already be at CIX if certain providers had more than a T1's worth of bandwidth available out of there, specifically to take advantage of the "mandatory peering" situation. Heavily-loaded small pipes to interesting places aren't useful, though.
The link you're alluding to is probably SprintLink's. It runs at or near capacity for most of every day, and while that's usually an indicator that a larger pipe is called for, it's also an indicator that the link is of use to at least some folks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Worldly Thoughts, (continued)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Erik Sherk (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Paul A Vixie (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Stephen Balbach (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Erik Sherk (May 11)
- RE: Worldly Thoughts Owen DeLong (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Dave Paulsen (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Dave Curado (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Paul A Vixie (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Alan Hannan (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Paul A Vixie (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Matthew Kaufman (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Matthew Kaufman (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Paul A Vixie (May 10)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts - Cix/SL single T1 Alan Hannan (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts - Cix/SL single T1 Paul A Vixie (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts - Cix/SL single T1 Robert Bowman (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts - Cix/SL single T1 George Herbert (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts - Cix/SL single T1 Robert Bowman (May 11)
- Re: Worldly Thoughts Paul A Vixie (May 10)