[54247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Basil Kruglov)
Wed Dec 18 14:59:05 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:58:34 -0600
From: Basil Kruglov <basil@cifnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021218193603.GQ56949@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:36:04PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> > Why wouldn't Cogent create a community string to provide its multihomed
> > customers with prepend 16631 (or customer asn) to Level3 peering sessions
> > to control inbounds better?
>
> Me thinks Cogent doesn't have a problem with congestion on the inbound
> direction. Fix your reverse path.
Customers of Cogent should be/are more concerned about congestion on the
inbounds at Level3 <-> Cogent; outbound is way too easy to control.
If the site is multihomed to any decent Tier1 provider +Cogent; (701 or 2914
or 1239 or 3561 or 1, etc +16631) with or without prepend 16631 or site ASN,
a lot of, if not all of the inbound traffic will still be going through one
of those better carriers, fortunately or unfortunately.
All I really want is to be able to control my inbound from Level3 ;)
-Basil
