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Re: Peering versus Transit
From: alan () mindvision com (Alan Hannan)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:51:11 -0500 (CDT)
Hello,
You mean that if I have data to go to Sprint, typically a Sprint customer who has requested said data, that I'm not supposed to route it to Sprint unless *I* have some agreement with Sprint?!?It scares me to see this question on this list.
Aiyee. Let us imagine, if we will, a truck. This truck has a rather odd reddish-orange circle-ish emblem, and the letters S-P-R-I-N-T on it. You notice inside a cellular phone. By what logic would you use the cellular phone for a personal call to a chap who happens to have Sprint as an LD provider? And by what logic would you send packets to a node you aren't "authorized" to? Silly analogies often provoke interesting defenses.... :-) * _Peering_ means that A and B agree to exchange routes and traffic for a certain set of customers/dependants of A and B. * _Transit_ means that A agrees to takes B's packets and get them to their destination (regardless of where it is) and that A will accept/advertise traffic/routes for B. * _Stealing_ is when B uses A's resources without permission or agreement. At least, that's what I understand.... -alan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Peering versus Transit, (continued)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael S. Ramsey (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Robert Bowman (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Alex.Bligh (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Nathan Stratton (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Deepak Jain (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael S. Ramsey (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Deepak Jain (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Nathan Stratton (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Robert Bowman (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Lon R. Stockton, Jr. (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Randy Bush (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Alan Hannan (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael Dillon (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Nathan Stratton (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael Dillon (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael S. Ramsey (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Lon R. Stockton, Jr. (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Sean Doran (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Peter Galbavy (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael Dillon (Sep 29)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Peter Galbavy (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Avi Freedman (Sep 29)