[187258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Mon Jan 25 14:30:30 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:28:20 GMT
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: jmaimon@ttec.com, nick@foobar.org
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
> multihop bgp means that you don't have synchronised ethernet carrier
> status between the provider and customer routers. This in turn means
> that if there's an intermediate connectivity problem, bgp will need to
> time out before it notices and reroutes. During this period, traffic
> will be black-holed. This is a crock.
It is but nobody worries about that, we trust route servers at IX
carrying way more traffic than most of these access circuits.
brandon
