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

Brandon Butterworth brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk
Mon Jan 25 19:28:20 UTC 2016


> From: Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org>
> multihop bgp means that you don't have synchronised ethernet carrier
> status between the provider and customer routers.  This in turn means
> that if there's an intermediate connectivity problem, bgp will need to
> time out before it notices and reroutes.  During this period, traffic
> will be black-holed.  This is a crock.

It is but nobody worries about that, we trust route servers at IX
carrying way more traffic than most of these access circuits.

brandon



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