[110878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: expectations for bgp peering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jan 21 10:13:18 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0901210808320.6312@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:13:14 -0500
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On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> As for the "you're not allowed to prepend" thing, have you
> experimented to see what happens if you try? Unless they're giving
> you special pricing based on the idea that they're providing you
> with strictly backup transit, they shouldn't be doing the prepending
> (unless you've asked them to or used communities to tell them to).
See, this is why I like NANOG. Many eyes see things one pair does not.
Hadn't even occurred to me that they were giving you special "backup
transit only" pricing. In that case, makes perfect sense to force
multiple prepends on their side.
Thanx Jon.
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TTFN,
patrick
