At 08:50 AM 4/20/00 -0600, Forrest W. Christian wrote:

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, I Am Not An Isp wrote:

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In Other Words: Network B is carrying 1500 byte packets 3000 miles, and Network A is carrying 64 byte packets 3000 miles.

Ahhh now I see... Network B is actually carrying ~25x the traffic for a given flow..... Thus is costs them 30x as much for the cross-country piece, and thus Network A should in some way help out with the costs.

Now the not-so-operational question is: Does that make Network A a "customer" of Network B? Or are they just trying to be genuine "peers" by sharing everything, including the cost of carrying *both sides* of the TCP flow?

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ

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