[115865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T and having two BGP peers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Fri Jul 10 14:54:09 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:53:46 -0400
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5B3743FC2D0D8B41B27EE4F5EACA79D108970FD0@DTN1EX01.gci.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Cancel the circuit...I know most of the providers I've worked with have
a 90 satisfaction guarantee. Chances are if you cancel the circuit they
will mysteriously find a way to work with you.
Warren Bailey wrote:
> Threaten to twitter about it. Worked for the guy on myth busters.. ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Fri Jul 10 09:48:15 2009
> Subject: AT&T and having two BGP peers
>
> We are getting an Ethernet DIA circuit from AT&T but they insist that
> they can't BGP peer with 2 routers on our side. The WAN circuit can
> only have /30 they say. Has anyone been able to successfully talk
> them in to bending their rule? If so, how?
>
> I know this should have been negotiated before signing a contract but
> I was unfortunately not in the loop... :(
>
> It seems like a ridiculous bureaucratic restriction.
>
>
