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Re: BBN Peering issues
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:18:14 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, John Butler wrote:
This statement is deluded to say the least. BBN peers with most other major backbone providers, and they have one of the fastest, most reliable networks in the world. Say Ms. Hancock ends up buying transit from Digex or UUnet. Under most current hot-potato routing schemes, that carrier will drop the packet at the closest BBN peering point, and the
But...do Above.net and Exodus.net actually buy transit from anyone, or are they each large enough that they just connect to the various NAPs and have free peering with all the other major networks? If they don't buy transit from any other backbone, and lose peering with BBN, what path will packets between BBN and either of the two above take? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis () fdt net> | Spammers will be winnuked or Network Administrator | drawn and quartered...whichever Florida Digital Turnpike | is more convenient. ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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- Re: BBN Peering issues, (continued)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Adam Rothschild (Aug 12)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Michael Dillon (Aug 12)
- Re: BBN Peering issues alex (Aug 12)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Roeland M.J. Meyer (Aug 12)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Gary E. Miller (Aug 12)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Henry Linneweh (Aug 12)
- Re: BBN Peering issues John Butler (Aug 13)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Adam Rothschild (Aug 13)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Deepak Jain (Aug 14)
- Re: BBN Peering issues steve (Aug 14)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Jon Lewis (Aug 13)
- Re: BBN Peering issues Robert Bowman (Aug 13)
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- Re: BBN Peering issues Erik E. Fair (Aug 17)
- Re: BBN Peering issues John Milburn (Aug 18)
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