Peering + Transit Circuits

Tue Aug 18 17:24:12 UTC 2015

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Tim Durack <tdurack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question: What is the preferred practice for separating peering and transit
> circuits?
>
> 1. Terminate peering and transit on separate routers.
> 2. Terminate peering and transit circuits in separate VRFs.
> 3. QoS/QPPB (
> https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog42/presentations/DavidSmith-PeeringPolicyEnforcement.pdf
> )
> 4. Don't worry about peers stealing transit.
> 5. What is peering?
>
> Your comments are appreciated.

If you have a small number of peers, a separate router carrying a
partial table works really well.

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