Well, if L3 is a transit provider, would it not make sense for them to increase the peering pipes in order to bill their customers more? I am sure there are some smiles there right now. At 20:24 -0600 12/28/02, Basil Kruglov wrote:
Speaking of this whole Cogent/AOL/Level3 mess.. sigh.
I got tired of trying getting anything out of Cogent. So, here's list of questions perhaps someone might be able to answer.
1. I'm sure some of you are customers of Level3, and I'm sure you do see 1-2 sec latency w/ Cogent, what's the official Level3 'position' if/when you contact them? Do they have any plans upgrading capacity with Cogent, what's their side of this story in general?
2. I think I asked this before, why wouldn't Cogent prepend customer prefixes to Level3 or set BGP4 community for multihomed sites, homed w/ Cogent + someone else.
(This is to control inbound, and please don't go into "this is not-standard and Cogent won't do it".)
3. Did anyone suggested to Cogent to carry traffic (or some portion of it) to AOL via MFN to offload its Level3 peering? I couldn't get any straight answer from Cogent why this can't be done.
4. And another interesting perspective... I'm sure NDAs on peering are involved, but anyhow -some of us don't really care about AOL that much, assuming it is only outbound from Cogent into AOL (via Level3) that is saturated, Cogent may try to push traffic as:
16631_174_3356_ excluding AOL' ASN(s) at one peering location
and keep saturating its Level3 peering connectivity at other locations. Any thoughts?
-Basil
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