On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:36:04PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Why wouldn't Cogent create a community string to provide its multihomed customers with prepend 16631 (or customer asn) to Level3 peering sessions to control inbounds better?
Me thinks Cogent doesn't have a problem with congestion on the inbound direction. Fix your reverse path.
Customers of Cogent should be/are more concerned about congestion on the inbounds at Level3 <-> Cogent; outbound is way too easy to control. If the site is multihomed to any decent Tier1 provider +Cogent; (701 or 2914 or 1239 or 3561 or 1, etc +16631) with or without prepend 16631 or site ASN, a lot of, if not all of the inbound traffic will still be going through one of those better carriers, fortunately or unfortunately. All I really want is to be able to control my inbound from Level3 ;) -Basil