My point is that’s a manual process. Some people believe BGP will automagically choose the best routes, when in fact it doesn’t know about latency, packet loss, etc. without tweaking by a human or robot.
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 8:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... Not required, but typically going along with full routes is access to BGP communities. You could fine-tune both what you advertise, what you accept and what your upstreams pass along. You don't have to drop the peer entirely if a subset of routes is working properly. ----- Mike Hammett <http://www.ics-il.com/> Intelligent Computing Solutions <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> Midwest Internet Exchange <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> The Brothers WISP <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> _____ From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 7:21:48 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... So much for the people who believe taking full BGP routes will automatically choose the best routes. (Why does "best routes" sound like something Trump would say?) -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 6:03 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... On 9/19/16 13:48, Robert Andrews wrote: > Anybody hear what's going on with Cogent..?? Lots' of packet loss on > all their cross connects. I am hearing a lot of people having > problems with financial transactions ( IP CC readers ) failing and > connectivity > to Citrix and such failing.. IS this the new world order? They're fubar for the last 3 days for different reasons. Today it's a (another?) fiber cut in LA. Had to pull routes away from Charter to get traffic away from Cogent. ~Seth
