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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote: > > So perhaps the question you should be asking is: Why didn't routes for > > these networks fall over to the other upstream peers which *are* capable of > > moving the packets? Surely MCI, AT&T, Sprint, and others would carry the > > packets to the right place. I can see the paths right here.... > > They did, and I'm not down. I see Level 3 via Sprint and GNAPs/CENT just > fine. No, I mean: Why didn't *your upstream's* routes fall back to *their* other peers, who should be perfectly capable of transiting those packets? The thinly veiled implication there is that "full mesh" is not a long term effective way to run the backbone level transit, because dropping one peer without an alternate path means that we get broken transit. Yum. -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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