[AusNOG] Attempting to understand DC internet connectivity

Richard Thornton richie.thornton at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 17:11:47 EST 2015


Thanks for clarifying that, I didn't even consider that they had to pay for
peering per mbit!

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:04 Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

>
> > On 14 Apr 2015, at 2:07 pm, Richard Thornton <richie.thornton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Mark, I remember seeing that in the past and thinking it was
> dodgy that they were modifying/ignoring my prepends, looking at the best
> way to add resiliency at minimum cost.
>
> It’s not dodgy, it’s in their own best interests to send traffic to you
> over links you pay them for, rather than over peering links that they have
> to pay someone else for.
>
> A lot of (most? all?) transit providers do it, it’s no big deal.
>
>   - mark
>
>
>
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