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Re: Peering versus Transit
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () quake net>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:39:59 -0700
Bill Woodcock <woody () zocalo net> wrote:
WRT the former, I simply cannot fathom, and no one other than Sean has yet presented an argument explaining why it's malicious to deliver a packet to its addressee's ISP.
You should always add "without consent of the said ISP". It is no different from dumping a pile of bricks at somebody's property. Are bricks useful? You bet. Will it get you dragged in court on charges trespassing and defacing the property? Sure as hell. It is not a "theft", it is more like trespassing. It is illegal and covered by codes related to unauthorized use of equipment.
Why should I, as an ISP, not prefer that all other ISPs deliver packets to my customers as quickly, efficiently, directly, and inexpensively as possible?
Efficiently, directly and inexpesively from whose point of view? Refer to the example of ISP in Mukhosransk.
Why should I prefer a more expensive or less reliable route, or expect any other ISP to do so?
There is a million reasons to do that -- economical, legal, technical. One technical reason is pretty obvious -- it is called "traffic engineering". Large ISPs often use nudged routing advertisements as means to balance load between peering points. That assumes that nobody is sending unsolicited traffic. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Peering versus Transit, (continued)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Bill Woodcock (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Matt Zimmerman (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Jeff Young (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Matthew Kaufman (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Sean Doran (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Barney Wolff (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Dorian R. Kim (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Dorian R. Kim (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Dorian R. Kim (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Barney Wolff (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit William Allen Simpson (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Vadim Antonov (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Michael Dillon (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit maillists (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Bill Woodcock (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Alex.Bligh (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Matt Zimmerman (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Vadim Antonov (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit maillists (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Vadim Antonov (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Vadim Antonov (Sep 30)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Vadim Antonov (Sep 30)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: Peering versus Transit Bill Woodcock (Sep 30)