Looking for BGP peers

Paul Timmins paul@timmins.net
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:10:54 -0500


If I am not correct, you can establish private peering with anyone who's 
willing - they don't have to announce your prefix to others...
But perhaps this is not what you are looking for...
-Paul

At 10:34 AM 10/30/2001, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Pedro Goncalves wrote:
> > Currently we (Telepac) are connected to the 6Bone, having RCCN as our 
> upstream pTLD.
> > We have several IPv6 accessable services (http, irc, nntp...) and we 
> are looking for more
> > BGP4 peers.
> > We are running Cisco IOS 12.2.4T on our routers.
> >
> > Is there someone interested in exchange BGP with us?
>
>Umm, unless I'm mistaking somehow...
>
>I doubt this makes much sense, because the peers you'd talk with would not
>be able to advertise your prefix (it's /48, limit is like /24 or /28 or
>/35, depending).
>
>If you want better connections, RCCN should be doing the peering.
>
>(we were perhaps in a similar situation; "imprisoned" by our pTLD, so we
>went and got a 2001: prefix we can announce anywhere we want)
>
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