Re: Level 3's side of the story

[John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>]

At 10:24 AM -0400 10/8/05, James wrote:
> > 3)  Possible traffic issues.  Was Cogent guilty of not transporting the
> > Level3-bound packets within the Cogent network to the closest
> > point-of-entry peer to the host in the Level3 network, therefore "costing"
> > Level3 transit of their own packets?  In other words is it also a traffic
> > engineering issue?
>
> No, that was BBN vs. Exodus depeering superbowl back in 90's, which was
> resolved through cold potato routing.

*cough*

Cold potato routing alone is insufficient in many cases, and some form of
settlement becomes necessary.

http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9808/msg00517.html

/John