There is one well-known IXP that sells transit as well. You'd be silly to buy both from the same provider.
CH Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin...@nanog.org> on behalf of William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 11:57:13 am To: Douglas Fischer <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Can an IXP sell IP transit? On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM Douglas Fischer <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > But I have seen a reasonably large scenario in which the IXP operator, > maintaining the MLPA LAN with the pair of Route-Servers, adds > another participant with the SAME ASN as the route-servers, > and through this participant starts to sell traffic. Of course they can sell transit. The reason they don't is that it has the potential to create a conflict of interest. When your customer is also a competitor and your customer suffers an outage that's your fault... Well, you see where this is going. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/
