jchin
join:2005-10-05
10300 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: Cogent the bad guy; but they are making demands "Their peers" can easily "load" up the BGP path weights to cause Cogent to route elsewhere. Turning it off and hurting the Internet in general is not the way to do things. Too much traffic coming it, throttle it. They can do that. At least traffic will flow, just a lot slower. They have the ability to control that; and I think they should. Maybe they are just too lazy to really keep an eye on their own borders. |
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jnxrox
join:2005-10-07
Las Vegas, NV | said by jchin:"Their peers" can easily "load" up the BGP path weights to cause Cogent to route elsewhere. Turning it off and hurting the Internet in general is not the way to do things. Too much traffic coming it, throttle it. They can do that. At least traffic will flow, just a lot slower. They have the ability to control that; and I think they should. Maybe they are just too lazy to really keep an eye on their own borders. This is not the way it works. The peering contracts are written to prohibit such traffic engineering. Such traffic manipulation is common from customer to transit provider but rare in peering between carriers. The only thing you can do is ask the peer to re-negotiate or do things like take MEDS so that they switch from hot potato to cold potato routing back to you. When these things cannot be negotiated, the terms end or one party chooses to terminate and peering may discontinue. It has happened before and it's not the last time. |
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