[108870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Oct 31 09:23:30 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: nick@inex.ie (Nick Hilliard)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:23:12 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <490AF05B.7000502@inex.ie> from "Nick Hilliard" at Oct 31,
2008 11:47:39 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> > This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar. They did the
> > same thing when Level3 depeered them.
>
> And they'll do it to others in future peering spats. It's just a bullying
> tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating if you're Sprint.
It is certainly not "just" a bullying tactic. It may be "A" bullying
tactic, I won't even attempt to guess at the intent, but the tactic also
has the very real side effect of re-establishing full connectivity to
Sprint-connected sites that lose it.
Given that other very significant result of the tactic, it is clearly not
"just a bullying tactic."
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
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With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
