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Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
- From: Todd Vierling
- Date: Wed Oct 05 14:43:11 2005
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> > So perhaps the question you should be asking is: Why didn't routes for
> > these networks fall over to the other upstream peers which *are* capable of
> > moving the packets? Surely MCI, AT&T, Sprint, and others would carry the
> > packets to the right place. I can see the paths right here....
>
> They did, and I'm not down. I see Level 3 via Sprint and GNAPs/CENT just
> fine.
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.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
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