[54381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL & Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sun Dec 29 14:46:53 2002
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:02:01 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021229022416.GA40490@shell.cifnet.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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.
>
> (This is to control inbound, and please don't go into "this is not-standard
> and Cogent won't do it".)
This is non-standard and Cogent wont do it. It is their policy not to do
non-standard stuff. To change the policy, you simply need to take control of
Cogent.
> 3. Did anyone suggested to Cogent to carry traffic (or some portion of it)
> to AOL via MFN to offload its Level3 peering? I couldn't get any straight
> answer from Cogent why this can't be done.
Same reason as above.
Alex
