[AusNOG] Pipe/Equinix Peering Costs

[Cameron Daniel]

On 2013-05-03 6:01 pm, Brad Evans wrote:
> 2 weeks ago we found TPG stopped sending traffic back to our AS via
> Equinix Exchange and they preferred to send traffic through our PIPE
> IP Transit connection. Fair enough, they want us to pay PIPE Transit
> for traffic from TPG rather than give it to us for free.
> 
>  So we withdrew our prefixes from Pipe Transit to do further testing -
> TPG preferred to go through Optus->Vocus to reach us (we also use
> Vocus for Transit) rather than direct across Equinix Exchange. So it
> seems they have no interest in sending traffic back to us over Equinix
> Exchange any more. Not a very open policy for peering if they are
> selectively refusing to route traffic to Equinix Exchange
> participants.

It's not uncommon for transit networks to filter customer routes on all 
peering links, whether the customer happens to be advertising the route 
on the customer<->provider session at the time or not. I think you'll 
find most providers do that, transit-free networks excluded.