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Re: Did Internap lose all clue?
From: Ryan Rawdon <ryan () u13 net>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:03:05 -0400
On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:48 PM, bas wrote:
Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: "As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT" I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count. Then I replied to the guy that if he tries to sell a technical product to technical people he should get his info straight. But he replied BGP actually makes decisions based on hop count. He even sent an URL from the internap website that states this http://www.internap.com/it-iq/route-optimization-miro/ On that page there is also this gem: "BGP relies on the premise that hops are responsible for packet loss and congestion, and therefore a route with fewer hops is inherently better. " I can imagine blatant misinformation like this from a shady startup trying to trick some sales with smoke and mirrors, but from Internap?
That's a shame - I had a sales-oriented conversation with a few people from Internap (we are already a customer but this was about other services) and they were very clueful. This was a few months ago (including some discussions about BGP and their optimization products where their technical sales lead was clueful about how it worked and what it did). Though, Internap had the NOC who replied to a problem report of mine (where even-numbered addresses weren't pingable in our block via Internap; I used <our prefix>.0, a router loopback, as an indication of something unpingable which normally is) with "You should expect <our prefix>.1 to respond to ping and such, but not 2<our prefix>.0 as that is only capable of representing a subnet and not a network interface of any kind, or any machine, at all"
Current thread:
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue?, (continued)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Paul Graydon (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Jay Nakamura (Oct 20)
- RE: Did Internap lose all clue? Holmes,David A (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Richard Irving (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? manny (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Brant I. Stevens (Oct 20)
- RE: Did Internap lose all clue? Darrell Hyde (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Bruce Pinsky (Oct 20)
- RE: Did Internap lose all clue? Holmes,David A (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Jack Bates (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Jack Bates (Oct 20)
- Re: Did Internap lose all clue? Matt Buford (Oct 21)