[111492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Biel)
Fri Feb 6 12:07:57 2009
In-Reply-To: <498C6AD9.4010404@ibctech.ca>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:06:35 -0600
From: Jason Biel <jason@biel-tech.com>
To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Pick your preferred link in, have them announce your /22, have the other
provider announce the /22, just weighed. That way you are multi-homed with
failover.
After that is configured, find a new ISP to replace the one that will not
let you peer with them.
Jason
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote:
> Daniel Rogers wrote:
> > The ISP may not support peering BGP with you, but can they publish routes
> > for you? I find it hard to believe ANY ISP just "doesn't support BGP".
>
> It is very possible that the ISP doesn't support BGP, but more likely,
> I'd bet that the ISP has never configured BGP on the client end of their
> network, and aren't too anxious to figure out how to do so.
>
> Steve
>
>
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Jason Biel
