Re: Cogent input - no peering with Global Crossing in Europe [Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 17, Issue 46]

2009-06-18 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Charles Wyble wrote: > Ouch... latency must be awful. > > I suppose this is based on Cogents reputation but who knows. The whole > peering aspect of the networking business is often a mystery. I dont think it is any mystery Cogent doesn't have many friends in the E

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-18 Thread L K
Speaking of the devil: "Comcast plans to enter into broadband IPv6 technical trials later this year and into 2010," {Barry Tishgart, VP of Internet Services for Comcast} said. "Planning for general deployment is underway." http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1417201/Comcast-To-Bring-IPv6-To-Res

Re: IPv6 transits (Was: Cogent input)

2009-06-18 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
i can confirm that Level(3), at least in Madrid area is only offering tunneled IPv6. --- Nuno Vieira nfsi telecom, lda. nuno.vie...@nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ - "Robert Blayzor" wrote: > On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

Re: IPv6 transits (Was: Cogent input)

2009-06-18 Thread Robert Blayzor
On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: For people trying to find the "list", check: http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=ipv6transit Since when has Level3 offered native IPv6? I nag our rep & SE's just about every month on "when" and right now AFAIK it's still just tunnels

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Hodle
Hi Justin, Just FYI - Global Crossing can currently deliver dual stack/native v6 transit in downtown KC,MO. You can either colo with them at 1100 Main St, or possibly have them haul a wave to one of the other major downtown carrier hotels they have strands running through / into (1102 Grand/B

Re: Cogent input - no peering with Global Crossing in Europe [Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 17, Issue 46]

2009-06-17 Thread Charles Wyble
Ouch... latency must be awful. I suppose this is based on Cogents reputation but who knows. The whole peering aspect of the networking business is often a mystery. AKK wrote: My main concern for European Cogent users is - no European peering with global crossing - traffic goes via NY JFK. I

Cogent input - no peering with Global Crossing in Europe [Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 17, Issue 46]

2009-06-17 Thread AKK
My main concern for European Cogent users is - no European peering with global crossing - traffic goes via NY JFK. It has been like this for at least a year and staff been giving assurances this should be sorted soon. Probably there are more bad peerings - please share. 6: so-7-0-0c0.rt1.m

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Stephen Kratzer wrote: >> >>> And, they have no plans to support IPv6. >> Ouch! >> >> I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks. > > read the rest of the thread... ...unfortunately, my message was sent out on the 11th, but just received yest

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-17 Thread David Temkin
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:14:31AM -0400, kris foster wrote: >> Simply untrue, at the Peering BOF yesterday Cogent said they are >> rolling this out. > > They saw my "How to deploy IPv6 in 30 minutes or less" tutorial on > Sunday and a

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-17 Thread Dan Carley
2009/6/11 Tore Anderson > > And, they have no plans to support IPv6. > > I have been promised, in writing, that they will provide us with native > IPv6 transit before the end of the year. > > I'm based in Europe, though. Perhaps they're more flexible and > customer-friendly here than in the US?

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:14:31AM -0400, kris foster wrote: > Simply untrue, at the Peering BOF yesterday Cogent said they are > rolling this out. They saw my "How to deploy IPv6 in 30 minutes or less" tutorial on Sunday and apparently it actually worked. Unfortunately I neglected to mention t

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-16 Thread kris foster
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Michael K. Smith wrote: On 6/11/09 7:37 AM, "Steve Bertrand" wrote: Stephen Kratzer wrote: And, they have no plans to support IPv6. Ouch! I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks. Steve To quote Randy, I encourage all my competitors to do this. S

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-16 Thread Michael K. Smith
On 6/11/09 7:37 AM, "Steve Bertrand" wrote: > Stephen Kratzer wrote: > >> And, they have no plans to support IPv6. > > Ouch! > > I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks. > > Steve To quote Randy, I encourage all my competitors to do this. Mike

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
Justin Shore wrote: > Paul Timmins wrote: >> GlobalCrossing told me today I can order native IPv6 anywhere on their >> network. Don't know if they count as Tier 1 on your list, though. VZB >> has given me tunnels for a while, hopefully they'll get their pMTU >> issue fixed so we can do more interes

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-16 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Stephen Kratzer wrote: > >> And, they have no plans to support IPv6. > > Ouch! > > I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks. read the rest of the thread... joel > Steve

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-15 Thread Stef Walter
Justin Shore wrote: > I'm in search of some information about Cogent, it's past, present and > future. I've heard bits and pieces about Cogent's past over the years > but by no means have I actively been keeping up. We've used cogent for the past year, 100 over GigE. - Clueful and responsive te

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:56:51 EDT, German Martinez said: > I guess the blackholing could come from Cogent having a route to you but *YOU* > not having a route back to Cogent as a consequence of the depeering. Wouldn't that only happen if some AS was foolish enough to single-home upstream of a Tier

IPv6 transits (Was: Cogent input)

2009-06-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
German Martinez wrote: > On Thu Jun 11, 2009, John van Oppen wrote: > >> NTT (2914) and GBLX (3549) both do native v6... most everyone else on >> the tier1 list does tunnels. :( > > AS5511 runs a double stack network for at least 7 years. > >> There are some nice tier2 networks who do native v

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-14 Thread German Martinez
On Thu Jun 11, 2009, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > I'm aware of some (regular?) depeering issues. The NANOG archives have > > AFAIR, there has never been a black-holing, just disappearance of routes. If > you are properly multihomed, this is irrelevant and you continue to eat your > ice cream and

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-14 Thread German Martinez
et > come to mind. > > > -John > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Timmins [mailto:p...@telcodata.us] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:00 PM > To: Justin Shore > Cc: NANOG > Subject: Re: Cogent input > > > > > > I hope at least some

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Justin Shore wrote: > I'm in search of some information about Cogent, it's past, present and > future. I've heard bits and pieces about Cogent's past over the years but > by no means have I actively been keeping up. > I had a very positive interaction with the C

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:13:02AM -0500, Justin Shore wrote: > Let me rephrase that. :-) I know of no tier-Ns that offer any native v6 > services here in the Midwest (central Kansas) including L3 which only > has a best effort pilot program using tunnels. There might be m

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-12 Thread Justin Shore
Paul Timmins wrote: GlobalCrossing told me today I can order native IPv6 anywhere on their network. Don't know if they count as Tier 1 on your list, though. VZB has given me tunnels for a while, hopefully they'll get their pMTU issue fixed so we can do more interesting things with it. I'd lov

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-12 Thread Justin Shore
John van Oppen wrote: NTT (2914) and GBLX (3549) both do native v6... most everyone else on the tier1 list does tunnels. :( There are some nice tier2 networks who do native v6, tiscali and he.net come to mind. Let me rephrase that. :-) I know of no tier-Ns that offer any native v6 services

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-12 Thread Jeroen Wunnink
That might be because some bigger providers in the Netherlands are throwing out transits that don't support IPv6. So there's your commercial necessity ;-) Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate future." :) "Cogent's offici

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread sthaug
> It's worth noting that being a v4 "tier1"/transit-free network doesn't > necessarily mean that they're the same in the v6 world. For instance, > Google appears to be a transit-free v6 network. It wouldn't surprise me > if the same is true for other big v6 players like Tinet and HE. Good point.

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Tore Anderson
Good morning, * John van Oppen > NTT (2914) and GBLX (3549) both do native v6... most everyone else > on the tier1 list does tunnels. :( > > There are some nice tier2 networks who do native v6, tiscali and > he.net come to mind. It's worth noting that being a v4 "tier1"/transit-free network d

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Warren Bailey
Does GBLX still have their data center in Chinatown(NYC)??? I remember about 10 years ago how amazed I was with that place... - Original Message - From: John van Oppen To: Paul Timmins ; Justin Shore Cc: NANOG Sent: Thu Jun 11 15:31:24 2009 Subject: RE: Cogent input NTT (2914) and

RE: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread John van Oppen
, 2009 4:00 PM To: Justin Shore Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Cogent input > > I hope at least some SPs make this commitment back in the states. I > can't find any tier-1s that can provide us with native v6. Our tier-1 > upstream has a best effort test program in place that uses

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Timmins
I hope at least some SPs make this commitment back in the states. I can't find any tier-1s that can provide us with native v6. Our tier-1 upstream has a best effort test program in place that uses ipv6ip tunnels. The other upstream says that they aren't making any public IPv6 plans yet.

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Justin Shore
Tore Anderson wrote: advertise loopbacks, and another for the actual feed. The biggest issue we have with them is that they don't allow deaggregation. If you've been allocated a prefix of length yy, they'll accept only x.x.x.x/yy, not x.x.x.x/yy le 24. Yes, sometimes deaggregation is necessary o

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Daniel Verlouw
On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Not from what i have been told, but hey i am not working there. We got a v6 transit offer as pilot from them so perhaps they are moving towards live service Would not be strange in this current stage... same thing here. routing

RE: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Rubenstein
> I'm aware of some (regular?) depeering issues. The NANOG archives have AFAIR, there has never been a black-holing, just disappearance of routes. If you are properly multihomed, this is irrelevant and you continue to eat your ice cream and chuckle while they fight it out. It's amusing, really.

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread seph
ther players (at least in our market) that are >> > priced very similar now and have a better history behind them. >> > >> > The specific de-peering issues never effected us much due to enough >> > diversity in our upstreams and a fair amount of direct/public

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Stephen Kratzer wrote: Perhaps you missed my quote: "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our plan for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend m

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our plan for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money to upgrade a network to IPv6 for no real return on investment." Thats stran

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Israel
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our plan for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money to upgrade a network to IPv6 for

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate future." :) "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our plan for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Bret Clark
You email is faster them mine ;) On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:09 -0400, Stephen Kratzer wrote: > Perhaps you missed my amendment: > > Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate > future." > > :) > > On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:06:38 Bret Clark wrote: > > Far differ

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Stephen Kratzer
Perhaps you missed my amendment: Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate future." :) On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:06:38 Bret Clark wrote: > Far different response then whoever quoted..."And, they have no plans to > support IPv6." > > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:03

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Bret Clark
Far different response then whoever quoted..."And, they have no plans to support IPv6." On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:03 -0400, Stephen Kratzer wrote: > Perhaps you missed my quote: > > "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it > becomes a commercial necessity. We have te

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Stephen Kratzer
Perhaps you missed my quote: "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our plan for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money to upgrade a network to IPv6 for no real return on inve

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Brad Fleming
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Stephen Kratzer wrote: The biggest issue we have with them is that they don't allow deaggregation. If you've been allocated a prefix of length yy, they'll accept only x.x.x.x/yy, not x.x.x.x/yy le 24. Yes, sometimes deaggregation is necessary or desirable even if

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Tore Anderson
Hello, * Stephen Kratzer > We've only recently started using Cogent transit, but it's been > stable since its introduction 6 months ago. Turn-up was a bit rocky > since we never received engineering details, and engineering was > atypical in that two eBGP sessions were established, one just to >

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Chuck Anderson
We've been using Cogent for 4 months now and I have no major complaints.

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread manolo
Stephen Kratzer wrote: > Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate > future." > > On Thursday 11 June 2009 10:33:25 Stephen Kratzer wrote: > >> We've only recently started using Cogent transit, but it's been stable >> since its introduction 6 months ago. Turn-up

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Bret Clark
I'm skeptical as to where this info came from since this seems nothing more then nay-say? if people are going to make grandiose statements then they should justify them with reputable evidence. I would be extremely surprised if Cogent engineering isn't working on a IPv6 plan or doesn't have one al

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Tore Anderson
Hi Justin, > I'm in search of some information about Cogent, it's past, present and > future. I've heard bits and pieces about Cogent's past over the years > but by no means have I actively been keeping up. We recently got a 10-gig port in Oslo from them. Price-wise they were competitive but ab

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Stephen Kratzer wrote: > And, they have no plans to support IPv6. Ouch! I hope this is a non-starter for a lot of folks. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Stephen Kratzer
Should have said "And, they have no plans to deploy IPv6 in the immediate future." On Thursday 11 June 2009 10:33:25 Stephen Kratzer wrote: > We've only recently started using Cogent transit, but it's been stable > since its introduction 6 months ago. Turn-up was a bit rocky since we never > rece

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Stephen Kratzer
We've only recently started using Cogent transit, but it's been stable since its introduction 6 months ago. Turn-up was a bit rocky since we never received engineering details, and engineering was atypical in that two eBGP sessions were established, one just to advertise loopbacks, and another f

RE: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Zak Thompson
nt: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:17 AM To: NANOG Subject: Re: Cogent input I hate when these questions get asked, because as the saying goes..."a person happy with a service will only tell one other person, but a person unhappy with a service with tell ten other people". So I think a

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 10:01 AM 6/11/2009, Andrew Mulholland wrote: We didn't have such problems. Had nx1Gig from them. On the few occasions where we had some slight issues, I was happy to be able to get through to some one useful on the phone quickly, and not

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread N. Yaakov Ziskind
Justin Shore wrote (on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:46:45AM -0500): > I'm in search of some information about Cogent, it's past, present and > future. I've heard bits and pieces about Cogent's past over the years > but by no means have I actively been keeping up. We've had Cogent for several years i

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Bret Clark
gh > > diversity in our upstreams and a fair amount of direct/public peering... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justinshore.com] > > Sent: Thursday, June

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:01 AM 6/11/2009, Andrew Mulholland wrote: We didn't have such problems. Had nx1Gig from them. On the few occasions where we had some slight issues, I was happy to be able to get through to some one useful on the phone quickly, and not play pass the parcel with call centre operatives.

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Andrew Mulholland
ted us much due to enough > diversity in our upstreams and a fair amount of direct/public peering... > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > -Original Message- > From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justinshore.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:47 AM > To: NAN

RE: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Stewart
h due to enough diversity in our upstreams and a fair amount of direct/public peering... Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justinshore.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:47 AM To: NANOG Subject: Cogent input I'm in search of some information abo

Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Justin Shore
I'm in search of some information about Cogent, it's past, present and future. I've heard bits and pieces about Cogent's past over the years but by no means have I actively been keeping up. I'm aware of some (regular?) depeering issues. The NANOG archives have given me some additional insigh