[85134] in North American Network Operators' Group
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.
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TTFN,
patrick