[141583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent & HE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 9 09:40:55 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DF08D22.8060408@unfix.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:37:05 -0700
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On 2011-Jun-09 10:39, Saku Ytti wrote:
>> On (2011-06-09 00:55 -0700), Owen DeLong wrote:
>>=20
>>> To be an IPv6 TIer 1, one has to peer with other IPv6 Tier 1s. HE =
has
>>> aggressively tried to improve the situation through promiscuous =
peering
>>> in every way possible. If you are interested in peering with HE and
>>> you have a presence at any of the exchange points we are at, send
>>> an email to peering at HE.NET and we will peer.
>>=20
>> I look forward for IPv4 to go away, as in future I can have full free
>> connectivity through HE to every other shop who all have full free =
connectivity
>> to HE. Something went terribly wrong in IPv4 land, where we're being =
unfairly
>> forced to pay to access other networks through them.
>=20
> You could, today, setup a IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel and HE will pay for =
the
> IPv4 transit at the cost of a little smaller lower MTU ;)
>=20
> Just need to find folks on the other side to terminate those tunnels =
who
> find also that using a free service is a good idea for a commercial
> setup. I guess all this free IPv6 transit has a perfect SLA of course
> with quick resolution for problems and of course a proper clean prefix
> feed with properly aggregated prefixes.
>=20
I was an HE Tunnel users long before I joined the company. In my =
experience,
our free tunnel service is quite reliable and provides excellent =
connectivity.
HE has been happily exchanging BGP and routing my /48 for several
years. The high quality of this service and the quick resolution to my
(very few) problems even on a free service is one of the things that =
attracted
me to join the company.
However, for those that want production-grade business-class tunnels,
we have launched a paid tunnel service as well.
Owen
