Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Fri Oct 7 08:53:02 UTC 2005

On 05 Oct 2005, at 13:44 , Charles Gucker wrote:
> Oh man, I have to jump in here for a moment.  Not that I agree with
> what happened, but to refute your claim that Cogent can get L3
> elsewhere, it goes both ways.  L3 can also get Cogent connectivity
> elsewhere.   This is a big game of chicken, it will be interesting to
> see who backs down first.

Ok, as I understand it, Level3 can get Cogent connectivity back  
simply be restoring the peering that they suspended, right?

I mean, Cogent can pay someone to route to L3 or L3 can fix what they  
did on their side, they have no need to go anywhere but their own  
routers, right?

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