[85416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Oct 9 00:34:58 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 09 Oct 2005 04:32:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <200510090323.j993NqxH023930@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I'm willing to bet there's a lot of single-homed customers of both Cogent
> and L3 that 2 weeks ago didn't think multihoming was a requirement of
> their business either, who now are contemplating it. Plus possibly some
> single-homed customers of other large providers as well.
any ISP likely to be involved in a peering dispute is a reliability risk,
and whether it's because others keep de-peering them or because they keep
de-peering others, doesn't matter. i liked the advice heard here the other
day-- if you have to single home, do it through a tier-2 or tier-1.5 ISP
without transit-free aspirations. they'll remain connected to the riskier
ISP's no matter what the riskier ISP's are doing to each other this week.
--
Paul Vixie
