UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
Karl Mueller
karl at best.net
Fri May 2 22:32:45 UTC 1997
>
>On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote:
>> What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to
>> get to folks who
>> buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace.
>
>You can already do this.
>
>Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes.
>Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can
>now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters. It will become a pain to
>load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased
>expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an
>exchange point this is an alternative.
>
I believe Sprint offers a BGP option to give only routes from Sprint
transit customers. Or at least, they used to. You do pay the
full rates, of course.
Karl
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