Hi all, Just wanted to say thanks to all who replied on and off list to my original inquiry.
I'd sum up feedback as follows: - Although Cogent has been surprisingly good for some, in general almost everyone agreed that it should never be relied upon as your main Internet provider. As a secondary link, they are a good value. - People had generally good feedback about Level3 - Having one carrier provide service over another carrier’s fiber is generally not a problem. Sometimes it adds complication when things go wrong (and a couple people had some pretty extreme cases to share), but in general most people did not recommend shying away from this kind of relationship. - Time Warner also received positive reviews in general as a carrier I was also surprised how many small ISPs like us are on the NANOG list. I kinda assumed most of you were big operators that dwarf us. It's great to have received perspectives from both large and small operators. Thanks again, everyone. Adam -----Original Message----- From: Faisal Imtiaz [mailto:fai...@snappytelecom.net] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 4:43 PM To: Vlade Ristevski Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: carrier comparison This is exactly what I thought had happened....The outage that affected you was one our two routers up-stream from your connection to that provider. I am not trying to defend any Carrier, but there is no 'routing protocol' what will react to this kind of an issue..... Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vlade Ristevski" <vrist...@ramapo.edu> > Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 3:57:00 PM > Subject: Re: carrier comparison > > We don't get a default route from them. At the time of the outage my > bgp session was up and I had a full routing table from them. I didn't > have much time to troubleshoot it in that state since we were down so > I had to disable the session ASAP. Once the RFO comes in, I'll be > asking a lot more questions about it. My only experience with BGP is > as a customer so I'm not too familiar with the intricacies on the > provider side. We had an outage in the AM the same day and we failed > over just fine. I'm very curious why the same didn't happen in the evening. > > > > On 2/7/2014 3:03 PM, Bryan Socha wrote: > > Did you verify your problem was announcements on the other side of the > > outage? This sounds to me like you are using a bgp announced default > > route from cogent which is always sent. I think the problem was you > > were sending traffic out a path that was broken. Since you mentioned > > your outbound balancing this would explain some packet loss and not > > 100% loss. > > > > > > Bryan Socha > > Network Engineer > > DigitalOcean > > -- > Vlade Ristevski > Network Manager > IT Services > Ramapo College > (201)-684-6854 > > >