On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
"I'm a Tier-One transit provider -- I only sell transit! You need to be just like me in order to peer with me, and you need to exchange gigabits of traffic with me in every exchange I'm connected into. Good luck meeting my requirements! Meanwhile would you like to pay port and access charges to reach my other customers instead?", and then there's the "we don't peer with customers" tactic -- as if they have _only_ other transit networks as customers, though oddly ARIN often disagrees with their view of things....
PSI (back before they went belly up) was even better with their "free peering" bait-n-switch. I looked into that, and they'd run a T1 to us for free peering, but I didn't think that would cut it. I wanted at least frac-T3 if we were going to peer. Well...frac-T3 peering wasn't available in the city we wanted to peer in, but they offered to sell us frac-T3 transit there. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________