Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

[Daniel Roesen]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:08:01PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> You can only be a "tier 1" and maintain global reachability if you peer 
> with every other tier 1. Level 3 is obviously the real thing, and Cogent 
> is "close enough" (at least in their own minds :P) that they won't buy 
> real transit, only spot routes for the few things that they are missing 
> (ATDN and Sprint basically). There is no route "filtering" going on, only 
> the lack of full propagation due to transit purchasing decisions, or in 
> this case the lack thereof.

Exactly. And this is why Cogent's statement to the public (and their
customers) is an outright lie. Level 3 isn't "denying Level 3's
customers access to Cogent's customers and denying Cogent's customers
access to Level 3 customers.". It's just that they deny Cogent
settlement-free direct peering anymore. Cogent can get the L3 and L3
customer routes elsewhere if they want. But Cogent doesn't. It's Cogents
decision to break connectivity, not L3's.

If I would be a Cogent customer, I would have a _very_ warm word with my
sales rep why they are trying to bs me with those kind of statements and
think that I actually am dumb enough to believe that.


Regards,
Daniel

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