[165294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent multi-hop BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Wilkins)
Wed Aug 28 11:23:52 2013
From: Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAE_ug17UDwzdbGY13DaMup3FfG9uDdoaKEWd0opFW11Hcgpvfg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:23:01 -0400
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 28, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> 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.
>=20
> Anyone know if this is still required for Cogent IP transit service?
> (on/off list is fine.)
>=20
> --=20
> Tim:>
For what it's worth, we started with Cogent doing the A/B peer thing =
when we were running IPv4 only with them. Once we added IPv6 BGP they =
migrated us to a direct peering. Much simpler and preferred. This is =
in Chicago at 710 Lakeshore.
Ryan Wilkins
