[141542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent & HE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jun 8 21:25:24 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4DF01F60.7030206@kl.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:55 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:
> 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?=20
>=20
> Do you have half the routing table as your customer base?
No one does, most especially neither 174 nor 6369. (Although GBL3 will =
be able to make a good stab at it if they don't shed too many customers =
post-integration.)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
