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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Oct 5 15:47:52 2005

In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0510051402240.26258@server.duh.org>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:24:01 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Todd Vierling wrote:

> 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?
>
> The thinly veiled implication there is that "full mesh" is not a  
> long term
> effective way to run the backbone level transit, because dropping  
> one peer
> without an alternate path means that we get broken transit.  Yum.

You are very, very confused on how the Internet works.

Which network do you run, sir?  I find it useful to know which  
networks have engineers who understand not only "conf t" but also  
what the commands they type actually mean.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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