[54373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL & Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sat Dec 28 21:46:30 2002
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:45:21 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021229022416.GA40490@shell.cifnet.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:24:16PM -0600, Basil Kruglov wrote:
>
> 2. I think I asked this before, why wouldn't Cogent prepend
> customer prefixes to Level3 or set BGP4 community for multihomed sites,
> homed w/ Cogent + someone else.
You got your answer to this before, what part wasn't clear? Cogent isn't
congested in the inbound direction, only outbound to Level 3. The best
they could do is lower their localpref for 3356, which I would surely hope
they have done already.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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