Re: BBN Peering issues

[alex () nac net]

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Sean M. Doran wrote:
>
> > Uhm, OK, so what's the difference between that and a customer connection
> > across which BGP is spoken?

There are two differences:

                                        Purchased 
                PX                      Customer Connection
                ==                      ===================
$:              $0                      >$0
Routes:         Just the                All
                other providers'


> The question above is rather interesting, and what I'd like to know is
> what are the various types of "peering" that various ISPs have arranged
> between each other?  

I'd think there are two; public exchange (MAE's, etc), and PX (it is be a
PtP DS[1|3], Frame PVC, ATM VC, whatever.


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