3 Mar
2025
3 Mar
'25
6:23 p.m.
[ caveat: we are happy users of both HE and Cogent ]
2. Hurricane Electric has stated that the abuse they saw made offering free BGP tunnels not worth it anymore
i am impressed/surprised that they have done it for so long. iij stopped a couple of decades ago; the thought being that its utility in deploying ipv6 became overweighed by the pain.
3. A global layer2 "IX" already exists for relatively low cost, Cogent has a "Global Peer Exchange" product where you only pay for traffic you do on your port.
i kinda wonder how this use of vlans scales under the covers randy