9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
12:32 a.m.
I'm willing to bet there's a lot of single-homed customers of both Cogent and L3 that 2 weeks ago didn't think multihoming was a requirement of their business either, who now are contemplating it. Plus possibly some single-homed customers of other large providers as well.
any ISP likely to be involved in a peering dispute is a reliability risk, and whether it's because others keep de-peering them or because they keep de-peering others, doesn't matter. i liked the advice heard here the other day-- if you have to single home, do it through a tier-2 or tier-1.5 ISP without transit-free aspirations. they'll remain connected to the riskier ISP's no matter what the riskier ISP's are doing to each other this week. -- Paul Vixie