[6bone] free transit

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:02:59 +0100


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:15:05PM +0000,
 Hans Goes <hgoes@eu.uu.net> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

> But..... Why is almost every peer giving free transit to everyone ?

This is the IPv6 world (or more precisely the 6bone world but in
practice, it is the same thing). It does not work like the ordinary
Internet. Wether it is a good thing (like Usenet, IPv6 people peer
with anybody and gratis) or a bad thing (the routing is a mess), I
don't know.

See Internet-Draft draft-savola-v6ops-6bone-mess-01.txt.
 
> Most peers of us give us more than 300 prefixes. 

The full routing table.