Even Friends Can Do BGP Peering

Description

A black-and-white manga panel of a smiling girl with short hair, earrings, and a sweater, chin resting on one hand while she holds another person's hand (a wristwatch visible). Two English speech bubbles read "EVEN FRIENDS CAN DO IT." and "BGP PEERING." The original romantic or suggestive line has been replaced with Border Gateway Protocol peering, the session two autonomous systems use to exchange internet routes. The joke is the double meaning of peering: intimate friends versus a formal eBGP relationship that needs an ASN, filters, and enough trust that a leaked prefix can take down a chunk of the internet. For network engineers it is settlement-free friendship until someone advertises a default and it becomes paid transit.