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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> David Diaz
> Subject: Re: Cogent service
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> The hop count question is interesting. Is the consensus that it's
> mostly a customer service issue, where latency isnt affected but
> customer perception is? Or is it a real latency issue as more
> routers take a few CPU cycles to make a routing decision.
>
> Dave
An occasionally-overlooked result of engineering your network
so that any point in your core is one hop away from any other
point is that you negate the second-to-last BGP path selection
criteria, which will take you down to the router-ID tiebreaker
from time to time.
