Kind of my thoughts on the matter, better a saturated pipe than a broken pipe
On Sep 19, 2016 10:30 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote: > It should accelerate the migration so you can assert more control. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"That One Guy /sarcasm" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Monday, September 19, 2016 10:11:07 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... > > This is what petrifies me about bgp. Right now, half our static allocation > hits cogent directly, the other half doesnt, at least we don't have to > worry about 50% directly. > Other than dropping the cogent peer, what recourse would we have right > now? Not that this is going to stop us from implementing bgp, little guys > like us have no recourse for immediate mitigation, do we > > On Sep 19, 2016 9:56 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> >> *To: *[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] <[email protected]>] On Behalf >> Of Seth Mattinen >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 6:03 PM >> To: [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 >> >> >> > >
