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----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keefe John" <keefe...@ethoplex.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 9:56:09 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... An open source BGP optimization tool would be nice. Keefe On 9/19/2016 8:20 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Not required, but typically going along with full routes is access to BGP communities. You could fine-tune both what you advertise, what you accept and what your upstreams pass along. You don't have to drop the peer entirely if a subset of routes is working properly. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 7:21:48 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... So much for the people who believe taking full BGP routes will automatically choose the best routes. (Why does "best routes" sound like something Trump would say?) -----Original Message----- From: Af [ mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com ] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 6:03 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cogent... On 9/19/16 13:48, Robert Andrews wrote: > Anybody hear what's going on with Cogent..?? Lots' of packet loss on > all their cross connects. I am hearing a lot of people having > problems with financial transactions ( IP CC readers ) failing and > connectivity > to Citrix and such failing.. IS this the new world order? They're fubar for the last 3 days for different reasons. Today it's a (another?) fiber cut in LA. Had to pull routes away from Charter to get traffic away from Cogent. ~Seth