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Re: Cogent & Level 3 routing issue?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Tykwinski)
Sat Dec 7 17:33:39 2013

From: Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <52A387D3.6000907@unlimitednet.us>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 17:33:13 -0500
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Honestly from the Internet Health Report, I've noticed connections =
between Level3 and Cogent are red quite a bit.
http://www.internethealthreport.com/

Bad samples or peering issues could be the cause either way, but it's =
been ongoing for awhile.

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300
F: 610-429-3222

On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Jason Canady <jason@unlimitednet.us> wrote:

> Unfortunately Cogent has a lot of peering issues.  We use them in our =
network blend and we have been having lots of problems with traffic =
outbound to Comcast.  It looks like from South Bend, Indiana on Cogent =
to Chicago / Level 3 we are getting a very tiny amount of packet loss =
and a higher than 'normal' latency of 35ms+.
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> Where are you connected to Cogent at?  And what destination are you =
going to on Level 3?
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> Best Regards,
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> Jason Canady
> Unlimited Net, LLC
> Responsive, Reliable, Secure
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> On 12/7/13 3:14 PM, Matthew Crocker wrote:
>> Anyone seeing issues between Cogent & Level3 in NYC?
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>> I have Sprint & Cogent for bandwidth.   Everything has been humming =
along for a couple years just fine.   Yesterday around 8:00AM my BGP =
session with Cogent flapped.  Now, when my Cogent BGP is up I get 100% =
packet loss in level3 land.  When Cogent BGP is down (i.e. I=92m running =
solely on Sprint)  Everything is fine.
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>> I have an open ticket with Cogent.  They say they have a =91capacity =
issue=92 with level3 that has been escalated to executive levels.
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>> With Sprint & Cogent BGP UP
>>  I see traceroutes showing traffic leaving me on Sprint but returning =
on Cogent (and failing at level3).  I=92m guessing it is the =
level3/cogent border
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>> With Sprint UP & Cogent Down
>>  I see trace routes showing traffic on to/from on Sprint just fine.
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>> Anyone else having issues?
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>> -Matt
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>> Matthew S. Crocker
>> President
>> Crocker Communications, Inc.
>> PO BOX 710
>> Greenfield, MA 01302-0710
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>> E: matthew@crocker.com
>> P: (413) 746-2760
>> F: (413) 746-3704
>> W: http://www.crocker.com
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