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

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Mon Jan 25 19:58:21 UTC 2016



On 25/Jan/16 21:28, Brandon Butterworth wrote:

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

Yes, but if those go belly-up, you have another exchange point to fall
back to, a bi-lateral peering session, or an upstream provider. Or all
three.

A "critical" device falling over in my network is far worse prospect to
experience.

Mark.



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