The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane Electric - and how to solve it

Fri Jan 22 20:28:19 UTC 2016

Owen DeLong wrote:
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> Crazy multihop BGP setups

I like that setup. And it never struck me as crazy. In fact, their 
implementation avoids all multihop setup shortcuts and is quite purist 
from a routing standpoint.

The multihop approach gives you the option of where to slice and dice 
your full table direct from ebgp.

In essence, that setup enables you as a customer to have a setup exactly 
like Cogent had as a vendor. If thats what you want.

> because they don’t do BGP on many (most?) of their customer facing routers?

I have a pending request to get that multi-hop setup. I was told that it 
was now a special request and they would "try" to get it done and these 
days all their routers had full table capacity and they no longer used 
the multi-hop.

> Frequent outages in many locations (maybe not where you are, seems to be certain problem areas on their network and not others)
> Spamtastic sales force?
> Overly aggressive sales calls?
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> I’m sure there are more, but as I’ve never been a Cogent customer (thankfully) due to their history of bad peering policies, peering disputes, generally obnoxious conduct as a company, etc. it is difficult for me to know much about the customer experience beyond what I hear from others, most of whom are former Cogent customers.
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> Interestingly, when I worked for HE, I wasn’t allowed to speak my mind about Cogent lest it “reflect badly” on HE.
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> Owen
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