IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Sun Dec 6 04:49:37 UTC 2015
> On Dec 2, 2015, at 17:38 , Ryan Rawdon <ryan at u13.net> wrote:
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>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Max Tulyev <maxtul at netassist.ua> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> we got an issue today that announces from Cogent don't reach Hurricane
>> Electric. HE support said that's a feature, not a bug.
>>
>> So we have splitted Internet again?
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>> I have to change at least one of my uplinks because of it, which one is
>> better to drop, HE or Cogent?
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> There is another option, instead of choosing just one - perhaps establish a tunnel to HE from a L3 device that can do the tunneling in hardware? You can get a HE tunnel for free, and they will speak BGP to you.
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> Alternatively, if you are on any IXes where HE is present - they will not only peer with you for v6, but announce a full table if you want it.
Where the definition of Full Table is everything that isn’t exclusively behind Cogent.
Owen
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