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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