[85122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Wed Oct 5 15:09:21 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0510051402240.26258@server.duh.org>
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:57:39 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Todd Vierling wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:
>
>>> So perhaps the question you should be asking is: Why didn't routes
>>> for
>>> these networks fall over to the other upstream peers which *are*
>>> capable of
>>> moving the packets? Surely MCI, AT&T, Sprint, and others would
>>> carry the
>>> packets to the right place. I can see the paths right here....
>>
>> They did, and I'm not down. I see Level 3 via Sprint and GNAPs/CENT
>> just
>> fine.
>
> No, I mean: Why didn't *your upstream's* routes fall back to *their*
> other
> peers, who should be perfectly capable of transiting those packets?
Who is Level3's upstream?
Who is Cogent's upstream? (Actually, I know the answer to that, but
it's for partial connectivity, not full)
You seem to be confusing peering with transit...
