On Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 10:43:51AM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
Level 3 and Cogent can't be operating in a vacuums - if we can get to Kevin Bacon in 6 degrees, Level 3 and Cogent should be able to get to each other in under 30 hops through other providers.
And why isn't this apparently happening automatically? Pardon the density of my brain matter here, but I thought that was what BGP was all about?
Yes, it could have - I'm led to believe that one of the parties does purchase transit. However, moving all that traffic over transit rather than peering would cost them a significant amount of money - and as they're running their transit service at extremely low cost, they probably would find it hard to fund the use of transit to reach the other party. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director | * Domain & Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: info@bogons.net *