North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues
> Of course, your right about what needs to be fixed! But situation with > cogent is such that I do not have that option. Their peering link with > level3 is congested because of all the traffic going to AOL and some of > traffic destined to me is going through same link the other way and > getting jammed as a sideeffect as well. I route aol-destined traffic from > my net to provider other then cogent - but how do I tell AOL and L3 (and > only them) that best path to me is through somebody else? route-map cogent-ick permit 10 match community-list <aggregate-only> set as-path prepend <iamuglypath> <iamuglypath> <iamuglypath> route-map cogent-ick deny 20 match community-list <deaggregated-routes> route-map happy-with-backup permit 10 match community-list <deaggregated-routes> route-map happy-with-backup deny 20 match community-list <aggregate-only> > Basil is right - the best way to deal with that would be for cogent to > provide special community that would allow me to direct cogent to prepend > several of their ASN to level3 advertisements. Cogent doesnot do anything custom. Alex
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