Re: IPv6 Cogent vs Hurricane Electric

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 17:38 , Ryan Rawdon <ryan () u13 net> wrote:
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> > On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Max Tulyev <maxtul () netassist ua> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > we got an issue today that announces from Cogent don't reach Hurricane
> > Electric. HE support said that's a feature, not a bug.
> >
> > So we have splitted Internet again?
> >
> > I have to change at least one of my uplinks because of it, which one is
> > better to drop, HE or Cogent?
>
>
> There is another option, instead of choosing just one - perhaps establish a tunnel to HE from a L3 device that can do 
> the tunneling in hardware?  You can get a HE tunnel for free, and they will speak BGP to you.
>
> Alternatively, if you are on any IXes where HE is present - they will not only peer with you for v6, but announce a 
> full table if you want it. 

Where the definition of Full Table is everything that isn’t exclusively behind Cogent.

Owen