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
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.
I think all network providers that offer BGP peering allow selective
filtering on the routes they send downstream. Obviously a lot of people
don't take them up on it (and would rather do the filtering on their end)
but the idea and the capability is there.
UUNet will do this for customers, and I assume MCI would too.
-Deepak.
A big problem here is the gag clause. This means that special deals will
be cut for the big companies like IBM and MSN and others.
This will allow UUNET to find out just how much we can afford then "stick
it to us" while allowing the big content providers to get an easy ride.
We really do need to stop this.