Effects of de-peering... (was RE: ratios)

Fri May 10 14:04:57 UTC 2002

JS> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:48:25 -0400
JS> From: James Smith

JS> I think we all assume that our provider "guarantees" us some
JS> sort of "total reachability". Near as I can figure, they do
JS> not. Therefore, you buy a pipe into their network based on
JS> percieved and actual connectivity and hope that the situation
JS> remains static at best. Does ANY provider give a
JS> "reachability" guarantee?

<iirc memory="bad">

Wasn't there a small russian ISP that had no access to _1_ during
the mid- or late-90s?

And didn't some ugly peering battles between 701 and 3561 back
when 3561 was MCI cause some { severely hampered | loss of }
connectivity between the two?

</iirc>

Help me out... I wasn't following routing and such very closely
back then.  But it seems that none of this is new, just another
iteration of the same...

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Eddy

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