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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Cogent service
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Dale Levesque wrote: > I must agree with everyone else's synopsis. There bandwidth is cheap, > and connection is reliable. They however do have some congestion issues > and are not very flexible when it comes to special needs. What are these 'special needs' people keep mentioning? What special needs might you have of your transit providers? Speaking of special...having played around a little with the BGP communities supported by C&W and Sprint, I'm wondering which other big transit providers (it seems almost a waste to say Tier 1 anymore) support community strings that will let you (the customer) cause them to selectively prepend route announcements to their peers. This seems to be a really handy tool for balancing (or at least trying to balance) traffic across multiple transit providers without having to resort to the sort of all or nothing results you'd get by prepending your announcements to the transit provider, or worse, deaggregating your IP space for traffic engineering. AFAIK, Genuity does not have this. UUNet has a very rudimentary version which allows you to cause them to do prepending to all or no non-customer peers. Sprint and C&W do it very differently but allow you to select which peers to prepend to (though you'll likely have to work with several Sprint engineers or get lucky to get it working). If there are others that support the sort of flexibility of Sprint and C&W, and have decent T3 level pricing, I'd like to hear about/from them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[email protected]*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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