FW: [OCCAID] RE: Heads up: Raising local-pref for all academic routes

[Mike Bran]

> Both AS_PATHs have 11537:2002 set which I believe is "commodity internet
> route, do not treat as internet2 member route."  This is a fine setup, we're
> not an Internet2 member, thus should be treated as commercial peer route.
> Current routing is sane also, west coast users go to west coast or Chicago,
> whichever is quicker, east coast users go to east coast (D.C.); just the way
> I want it :)

Sounds fine with me :)

Going back to July for a moment however.. this relates to Boston router outage..

> everything is back up.  silicom 6xGE card is malfunctioning on the router, so
> we are going to need to schedule maintenance during night time in a few weeks
> to get that fixed.  BU peering is still turned off but AFAIK they've been 
> notified of the service restoration.

There aren't any more 6x Gig silicoms in inventory as far as I can tell, and it's
been going on since July. Still seeing errors in router log. I'd rather see the
broken card removed than leaving things where they are.  But we will have to schedule
maintenance later again if we need more ports.

--mikeb