[186169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Rawdon)
Wed Dec 2 21:08:46 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ryan Rawdon <ryan@u13.net>
In-Reply-To: <565DF39C.9060503@netassist.ua>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 19:38:13 -0600
To: Max Tulyev <maxtul@netassist.ua>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Max Tulyev <maxtul@netassist.ua> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> we got an issue today that announces from Cogent don't reach Hurricane
> Electric. HE support said that's a feature, not a bug.
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> So we have splitted Internet again?
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> I have to change at least one of my uplinks because of it, which one =
is
> better to drop, HE or Cogent?
There is another option, instead of choosing just one - perhaps =
establish a tunnel to HE from a L3 device that can do the tunneling in =
hardware? You can get a HE tunnel for free, and they will speak BGP to =
you.
Alternatively, if you are on any IXes where HE is present - they will =
not only peer with you for v6, but announce a full table if you want it.=20=
