
7 Apr
2025
7 Apr
'25
3:10 p.m.
nanog@lists.nanog.org (Sriram, Kotikalapudi (Fed) via NANOG) wrote:
Does the following ever happen in reality? Do you think it is strange and unlikely? The lateral (i.e., non-transit) peer of an AS is also the transit provider of the AS's transit provider. Example: AS A has AS B as a transit provider and AS C as a lateral peer, and AS C is a transit provider of AS B.
Yes, and it's very often a mess traffic-engineering wise...