[85139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Wed Oct 5 16:04:17 2005
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:19:31 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <434410D7.80003@wvi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 10:43:51AM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
> Level 3 and Cogent can't be operating in a vacuums - if we can get to
> Kevin Bacon in 6 degrees, Level 3 and Cogent should be able to get to
> each other in under 30 hops through other providers.
>
> And why isn't this apparently happening automatically? Pardon the
> density of my brain matter here, but I thought that was what BGP was all
> about?
Yes, it could have - I'm led to believe that one of the parties does purchase
transit. However, moving all that traffic over transit rather than peering
would cost them a significant amount of money - and as they're running their
transit service at extremely low cost, they probably would find it hard to
fund the use of transit to reach the other party.
Simon
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