North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:44:55AM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > AOL (AS1668) stopped peering with cogent yesterday for reasons they did > > > not disclose publicly. Cogent sends same letter to all customers who > > > asked for what is going on and in the letter they say that two weeks > > > ago, peering to AOL was upgraded to OC48 from OC12 and now for some > > > reason AOL stopped peering and if somebody has questions they should call > > > AOL to complain .. (with phone# to their NOC provided in the letter > > > - not very nice thing to do it like this in my opinion). > > > > If nothing else, Cogent could be using their idle 6461 transit, instead of > > grandstanding by overloading their Level 3 capacity so they can blame AOL. > > is it really idle ? > > Why wouldn't Cogent create a community string to provide its multihomed > customers with prepend 16631 (or customer asn) to Level3 peering sessions > to control inbounds better? Because they do not do custom anything. Alex
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