Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Todd Vierling wrote:

> No, I mean:  Why didn't *your upstream's* routes fall back to  
> *their* other
> peers, who should be perfectly capable of transiting those packets?
>
> The thinly veiled implication there is that "full mesh" is not a  
> long term
> effective way to run the backbone level transit, because dropping  
> one peer
> without an alternate path means that we get broken transit.  Yum.

You are very, very confused on how the Internet works.

Which network do you run, sir?  I find it useful to know which  
networks have engineers who understand not only "conf t" but also  
what the commands they type actually mean.

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TTFN,
patrick