[52210] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cogent service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Fri Sep 20 15:42:35 2002
From: "Mark Borchers" <mborchers@igillc.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:42:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <p05111a12b9b104439f9a@[65.191.183.11]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> David Diaz
> Subject: Re: Cogent service
{portions deleted}
> The hop count question is interesting. Is the consensus that it's
> mostly a customer service issue, where latency isnt affected but
> customer perception is? Or is it a real latency issue as more
> routers take a few CPU cycles to make a routing decision.
>
> Dave
An occasionally-overlooked result of engineering your network
so that any point in your core is one hop away from any other
point is that you negate the second-to-last BGP path selection
criteria, which will take you down to the router-ID tiebreaker
from time to time.
