Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Wed Oct 5 16:00:40 UTC 2005

At 11:50 AM 05/10/2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:
>I opened a billing/support ticket with Cogent.   I'm not planning on
>paying my bill or continuing the contract if they cannot provide full
>BGP tables and full Internet transport (barring outages).   Luckily I
>have 2 other providers so I can still reach Level 3.
>
>Maybe I can buy the new 'Cogent - it is almost the Internet' service
>for less money.

Perhaps they took the 3 in level3 to mean 3 routes ? ;-)

cogent-gate# show ip bgp regex 174 .* 3356$

    Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*  63.135.164.0/24  38.112.9.13          15001    100    110 174 701 
18905 14745 1239 3356 i
*  194.32.125.0     38.112.9.13          18000    100    110 174 1273 
9121 3549 3356 i
*  194.32.127.0     38.112.9.13          18000    100    110 174 1273 
9121 3549 3356 i

Rather than swamping their desk with the same ticket, can you report 
back to NANOG what they tell you ?

         ---Mike 