[165292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent multi-hop BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Aug 28 10:27:51 2013
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:25:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAE_ug17UDwzdbGY13DaMup3FfG9uDdoaKEWd0opFW11Hcgpvfg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Tim Durack wrote:
> I was under the impression Cogent no longer did the multi-hop BGP thing,
> but then I got a copy of their NA user guide, and saw the peer-a/peer-b
> configuration. Not a fan.
>
> Anyone know if this is still required for Cogent IP transit service?
> (on/off list is fine.)
If you mean required in order to load share over multiple circuits, no.
They support LAG in most places now and LAG is their preferred method for
load sharing over multiple links.
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