BBN Peering issues
alex at nac.net
alex at nac.net
Thu Aug 13 20:38:52 UTC 1998
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
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$: $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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