IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Sun Dec 6 04:49:37 UTC 2015


> On Dec 2, 2015, at 17:38 , Ryan Rawdon <ryan at u13.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Max Tulyev <maxtul at netassist.ua> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> we got an issue today that announces from Cogent don't reach Hurricane
>> Electric. HE support said that's a feature, not a bug.
>> 
>> So we have splitted Internet again?
>> 
>> I have to change at least one of my uplinks because of it, which one is
>> better to drop, HE or Cogent?
> 
> 
> There is another option, instead of choosing just one - perhaps establish a tunnel to HE from a L3 device that can do the tunneling in hardware?  You can get a HE tunnel for free, and they will speak BGP to you.
> 
> Alternatively, if you are on any IXes where HE is present - they will not only peer with you for v6, but announce a full table if you want it. 

Where the definition of Full Table is everything that isn’t exclusively behind Cogent.

Owen




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