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On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:37:10AM -0600, Basil Kruglov wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:45:21PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > > 2. I think I asked this before, why wouldn't Cogent prepend > > > customer prefixes to Level3 or set BGP4 community for multihomed sites, > > > homed w/ Cogent + someone else. > > > > You got your answer to this before, what part wasn't clear? Cogent isn't > > congested in the inbound direction, only outbound to Level 3. The best > > they could do is lower their localpref for 3356, which I would surely hope > > they have done already. > > I understand very well that there is no problem on the inbound of Cogent > from Level3. > > For my not-so-bright customers I simply want traceroutes to look good when > they run one from Level3-homed site. Obviously a ~5-7 hops to us looks > really disturbing, try to explain to one of them that there is no problem. > > Enough said. > -Basil Then make a press release for your not so bright customers, and explain every single detail rather than asking a company to change their entire routing policy because you're too lazy to educate your customers on how traceroute shouldn't be used as a tool to gauge performance. And if you can't explain it to them, then you should step back and look at who you really have for customers. "Enough said." -- Omachonu Ogali Information Wave Technologies [email protected] http://www.informationwave.net
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