<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 17 Jun 2014, at 21:59, PRK <<a href="mailto:ausnog@digitaljunkie.net">ausnog@digitaljunkie.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><p>Out of curiosity (thrown out to everyone, not just Daniel), is there a use case for BGP peering over a tunnel?</p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>When transit is cheaper per megabit than WAN links, it's more economically effective to light up tunnels over transit than it is to build your own network.<div><br></div><div>(in the Australian case, there's some significant history around rural POPs and service to the entirety of Tasmania along these lines; where transit could be negotiated on a lowish nationally averaged price from the same provider who was offering extortion-based pricing for point to point transmission)</div><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>