Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gucker
On 10/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a network operations thing... why should Comcast provide a fat pipe for the rest of the world to benefit from? Just my $.02. Because their customers PAY them to provide that fat pipe? You are correct, customers pay Comcast to

Re: my problem or ATT's?

2006-11-05 Thread Charles Gucker
On 11/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are AS35985 and provide transit for AS36845. Currently, AS7018 is able to route to us (AS35985), but not our customer (AS36845). I have checked every looking glass and traceroute site I can think of. Every network I have tried has a

Re: register.com down sev0? - More information

2006-10-26 Thread Charles Gucker
5. ATT (at least when I've dealt with them in their datacenters) does not support BGP community strings for null routing (or any strings for that matter :) Think about that for a second. To stop an attack Register.com would need to call ATT and request a filter/null route. Since ATT operations

Re: BGP community guide for AS7911 (willtel, now L3)

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Gucker
On 4/27/06, John van Oppen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have a list of communities that the old AS7911 accepts from customers? I can't find their guide anywhere and nobody at level3 seems to have it. I really need to keep traffic from a couple of ASes away from them if possible

Re: BGP community guide for AS7911 (willtel, now L3)

2006-04-27 Thread Charles Gucker
! http://www.readytechs.com/filterpro === Charles Gucker wrote: On 4/27/06, John van Oppen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have a list of communities that the old AS7911 accepts from customers? I can't find their guide anywhere

Re: IP ranges, re- announcing 'PA space' via BGP, etc

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Gucker
On 4/7/06, Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 April 2006 07:03:09 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Can you give us some examples so us dumb Americans can more precisely explain the problem? :) When a random customer (content hoster) asks you to accept something out of 8/8

Re: Honest Cogent opinions without rhetoric.

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Gucker
Much of the negatives is from jaded competitors who don't want to fairly compete. Other than that, the answer is 'it depends'. Depends on if you like to do traffic engineering; Cogent's BGP community support, consisting of a whole three things you can set (two if you only have a single

Re: Honest Cogent opinions without rhetoric.

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Gucker
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0500, Omachonu Ogali wrote: I have the need to de-pref my routes to Level3, to be of equal value as the routes they receive from their peers, but they don't offer a community for that. But wow, I can see that this route originated from Tustin, CA! Hrm, this

Re: Issue AS and Subnet Announcment on BGP - Conflict with a major TelCO - 30h+ of route flapping unresolved

2005-11-15 Thread Charles Gucker
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:46:35PM -0500, Alain Hebert wrote: Hi, I know somebody that is experiencing route flapping for more than a day now and we found out 10h ago that it was due to the announcement of his subnet by a major TelCO. Once that telco contacted, we got the

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Gucker
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:53:02AM -0600, Lewis Butler wrote: On 05 Oct 2005, at 13:44 , Charles Gucker wrote: Oh man, I have to jump in here for a moment. Not that I agree with what happened, but to refute your claim that Cogent can get L3 elsewhere, it goes both ways. L3 can also get

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Gucker
On 07 Oct 2005 19:00:46 +, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Gucker) writes: Ok, as I understand it, Level3 can get Cogent connectivity back simply be restoring the peering that they suspended, right? First off, that's not my quote. ;-) Second

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Charles Gucker
On 10/5/05, Daniel Roesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:08:01PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: You can only be a tier 1 and maintain global reachability if you peer with every other tier 1. Level 3 is obviously the real thing, and Cogent is close enough (at

Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry

2005-09-16 Thread Charles Gucker
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:37:08PM -0700, Matt Bazan wrote: a) the quote was in fact from a particular company (sure, it may look darn similar - but prove? and if you're really worried, fudge some details a bit) - sure, if it's a $10 million quote that's one thing. But say a

Re: Providers that support prepending to specific remote AS's?

2005-08-11 Thread Charles Gucker
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:06:09PM -0400, David Hubbard wrote: Hi all, I'd appreciate any on or offlist emails with the names of larger providers that allow you, through communities, to do prepending of your AS path to selected remote AS's. We use two providers that allow this since we use