[110880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: expectations for bgp peering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Wed Jan 21 10:38:28 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:38:21 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0901210808320.6312@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, mike wrote:
>
> Assuming you're getting full routes from this provider, I wouldn't be
> surprised if the multihop is required because their router you're
> connected to doesn't have or can't handle full BGP routes.
There is a fairly large Tier 1 US provider who does exactly this.
I imagine that this allows them to build out their network using cheap
L3 (think 3550's or even 3560's) switches for their customer interfaces
with a few "route servers" in core pops and a number of beefy border
routers.
