"chance to pick up a redundant connection". Well, traffic will have chances to pick up an alternative AS path - mesh peering (at the public IX). Also go via the redundant physical link if you have one agreed w/ ure peering point, or just take the best egress path via the (or one of the )transit connection(s). Why don't you just go privatly? --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Steven King <sking@kingrst.com> wrote:
From: Steven King <sking@kingrst.com> Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? To: "Paul Stewart" <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:22 PM It would only be a redundant connection if the AS your peering with is a transit AS. The AS that I work with is a stub AS and can not function as a fully redundant link.
Just something to watch out for.
Paul Stewart wrote:
Thanks! That's a really good one and surprised myself I missed it..;)
_____________________________________________ From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:28 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits?
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:17:45 EDT, Paul Stewart said:
I can think of some but looking to develop a concrete list of
appealing
reasons etc. such as:
-control over routing between networks -security aspect (being able to filter/verify routes to some degree) -latency/performance
I'm surprised you didn't include "chance to pick up a redundant connection".
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