[115176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent input
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Fleming)
Thu Jun 11 11:00:50 2009
From: Brad Fleming <bdfleming@kanren.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200906111033.26208.kratzers@pa.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:59:09 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Stephen Kratzer wrote:
> The biggest issue we have with them is that they don't allow
> deaggregation. If you've been allocated a prefix of length yy,
> they'll accept
> only x.x.x.x/yy, not x.x.x.x/yy le 24. Yes, sometimes deaggregation is
> necessary or desirable even if only temporarily.
In our peering session with Cogent, we requested several /16 le /24
prefixes configured and received no pushback or problems. We are using
their 1Gbps service so I'm not sure if that buys us additional leeway
with requests like this or not. We've been customers for nearly two
full years and intend to continue for at least a third.
-brad fleming
