[141539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent & HE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Wed Jun 8 21:18:32 2011
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:18:24 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
CC: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110608230517.GL18302@gerbil.cluepon.net>
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Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:39:02PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> Yes, both refuse to buy transit, yes. But HE is able, willing, and
>> even begging to peer; Cogent is not. These are not "the same thing".
>
> I'm ready, willing, and lets say for the purposes of this discussion
> begging to peer with every Tier 1, but some of them aren't willing to
> peer with me. Does that mean I should stop buying transit and blame them
> for my resulting lack of global reachability?
Do you have half the routing table as your customer base?
- Kevin