In a message written on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:24:13AM -0500, Keegan Holley wrote:
I always assumed that taking in more traffic was a bad thing. I've heard about one sided peering agreements where one side is sending more traffic than the other needs them to transport. Am I missing something? Would this cause a shift in their favor allowing them to offload more customer traffic to their peers without complaint?
It's one of many techniques used by peers to "balance" the ratio. However, there may be a simpler explanation. If you bill by the bit as a transit provider it's in your best interest to make sure your customer gets as many bits through you as possible. Plus if you can fill their pipe, they need to buy an upgrade to you. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/