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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Wed Oct 5 16:51:28 2005

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:37:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0510051331490.26258@server.duh.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> This comes down to a little more than just "depeering" -- at least in the
> BGP sense.  There's active route filtering going on as well if connectivity
> is dead; after all, I can bet the house that at least one of Cogent's
> network edge peers has connectivity to Level3, and vice versa.

People who are single-homed to either Cogent or Level(3) are the ones who 
are most likely to feel the pain of broken connectivity.

jms

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