[54249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Basil Kruglov)
Wed Dec 18 15:20:12 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:19:40 -0600
From: Basil Kruglov <basil@cifnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212181521480.22955-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:23:04PM -0500, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Cogent has a pile of available inbound - websites tend to send traffic out,
> not take traffic in.
Somewhat true. Yet still if the inbound from one of the major players is
really saturated wouldn't that hurt Cogent customers.
-Basil
