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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lewis Butler)
Fri Oct 7 04:55:08 2005

In-Reply-To: <1e55e5970510051244o9f3a694l7493f41032ed987@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 02:53:02 -0600
To: Charles Gucker <cgucker@onesc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 05 Oct 2005, at 13:44 , Charles Gucker wrote:
> Oh man, I have to jump in here for a moment.  Not that I agree with
> what happened, but to refute your claim that Cogent can get L3
> elsewhere, it goes both ways.  L3 can also get Cogent connectivity
> elsewhere.   This is a big game of chicken, it will be interesting to
> see who backs down first.

Ok, as I understand it, Level3 can get Cogent connectivity back  
simply be restoring the peering that they suspended, right?

I mean, Cogent can pay someone to route to L3 or L3 can fix what they  
did on their side, they have no need to go anywhere but their own  
routers, right?


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