[186229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Dec 5 23:53:27 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <98647D12-9795-4B78-AD19-2588674A6C77@u13.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 20:49:37 -0800
To: Ryan Rawdon <ryan@u13.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Dec 2, 2015, at 17:38 , Ryan Rawdon <ryan@u13.net> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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=
Where the definition of Full Table is everything that isn=E2=80=99t =
exclusively behind Cogent.
Owen
