When I last spoke to them, it sounded like they were using a bunch of LAG groups based on ip address because they _really_ wanted to know how many ip addresses we had and what kind of traffic we would be expecting (eyeball networks, big data transport, etc). -----Original Message----- From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 1:46pm To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Cogent Layer 2 I had a discussion with them about a point to point circuit last year and ran into some weirdness around how burstable it would be for specific IP to IP streams as our use case was cheap circuit / high speed data replication between given endpoints. The sales rep was suggesting to me that I’d see specific source/destination IP pairs capped at 2gbps regardless of circuit speed, which suggested to me it was not actually a point to point wave but some type of encapsulated service. We didn’t get into whether it was usable for non-IP, etc. From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Cogent Layer 2 Are any legitimate beefs with Cogent limited to their IP policies, BGP session charges, and peering disputes? Meaning, would using them for layer 2 be reasonable? ----- Mike Hammett [ Intelligent Computing Solutions ]( http://www.ics-il.com/ ) [ ]( https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL )[ ]( https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb )[ ]( https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions )[ ]( https://twitter.com/ICSIL ) [ Midwest Internet Exchange ]( http://www.midwest-ix.com/ ) [ ]( https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix )[ ]( https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange )[ ]( https://twitter.com/mdwestix ) [ The Brothers WISP ]( http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/ ) [ ]( https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp )[ ]( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg )