Open Peers at PAIX

Thu Jun 28 19:55:07 UTC 2001

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:

> These are the only large service provider networks I see listed.
> AboveNet would probably peer with a bum on the street outside PAIX if
> he could speak BGP, but AFAIK GBLX's requirements were at least 3
> locations and bi-costal at a minimium. If I remember correctly Exodus
> is also slightly picky about its "ghetto peers", probably falling
> somewhere the middle of the other two.

come on richard... you know that Exodus has an open peering policy... :)

of course, exodus has all their peering information online

http://bengi.exodus.net/external/peering.html

> Seems almost all the larger service providers are requiring at least
> bi-costal these days.

which isnt that much of a big deal today. x-country oc3s are what, 10k per
month now?

Christian