[188329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent - Google - HE Fun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 16 15:24:37 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <933ae78f-a745-0ad4-7ff5-6f887345e444@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:23:30 -0700
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:43 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 16/Mar/16 17:41, Christopher Morrow wrote:
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>> my guess is the same as Owen's ... 'your rfq don't mean squat'.
>> honestly it's not like people don't ask their cogent sales folk for
>> this sort of thing, it's just not cogent's (clearly, given how long
>> the HE/Cogent thing along has persisted) way of doing things.
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>> Sometimes your belief system just isn't theirs.
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> The first time I considered buying from Cogent was out of One =
Wilshire,
> back in 2010. I did a 1-month PoC with them.
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> The global IPv6 BGP table was around 2,500 routes then. Cogent had =
only
> 100 or so, IIRC. I told them I would not sign with them due to this.
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> Fast-forward to 2012, nothing much had changed when they tried to get =
me
> to buy from them again (out of London, this time), and I told them =
why.
> Then in 2014, they tracked me down again and confirmed they then had a
> full IPv6 BGP table. So I added them to my network (out of Amsterdam).
Please confirm that you in fact are receiving 174 * 6939 IPv6 paths from =
them?
Seems unlikely to me.
Owen
