Re: carrier comparison

[Olivier Benghozi <olivier.benghozi () wifirst fr>]

Hi Faisal,

> You might have to deploy some other means of (script ?) to bring your BGP session down from the 'broken' Service 
> Provider.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, BGP does not have any mechanism to determine broken connectivity upstream past the 
> router you are BGP session is up with.

Well, technically there's BFD that might do the trick. But of course it won't be available; it's not usually, so 
specially with Cogent... :)
But maybe its link was just overloaded in fact.


-- 
Olivier