Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Wed Oct 5 19:22:05 UTC 2005


On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Douglas Dever wrote:

> On 10/5/05, Matthew Crocker <matthew at crocker.com> wrote:

>> They did, and I'm not down.  I see Level 3 via Sprint and GNAPs/CENT
>> just fine.  I didn't lose any connectivity to Level 3 at all.  Bits
>> moving down different pipes, not a big deal to me technically.   The
>
> So, where's the problem, exactly?
>
>> fact remains that Cogent is not providing the service I'm paying them
>> for and they need to get it fixed.
>
> Really?  As you already pointed out, your packets are reaching their
> destination.  So, they don't "need" to get anything "fixed."
>
> What utter nonsense...
>
> *shakes head and walks away*

I think you are confused.

Without making value judgments or saying what L3 / Cogent _should_  
do, I think Matthew is saying that he paid Cogent for connectivity to  
the internet.  So if his GNAPS circuit dies, he does not want to be  
cut off from L3 end users.  Right now, he has no such guarantee.

Exactly which part of this do you think is nonsense?  Or do you think  
redundant circuits only need to be partially redundant?

And, making value judgments, I can say (for me personally) that if I  
buy transit, I also expect to get to the _whole_ Internet, at least  
to a few decimal places.  Neither L3 nor Cogent are providing that  
today.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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