On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote:
What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to get to folks who buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace.
You can already do this.
Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes. Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters. It will become a pain to load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an exchange point this is an alternative.
I believe Sprint offers a BGP option to give only routes from Sprint transit customers. Or at least, they used to. You do pay the full rates, of course. Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Mueller karl@best.net Sr. Network Engineer Best Internet Communications, Inc. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------