[115936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T and having two BGP peers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Kratzer)
Mon Jul 13 10:37:44 2009
From: Stephen Kratzer <kratzers@pa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:36:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: <9418aca70907101048h452520b0sd8681585e4b2709f@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: kratzers@pa.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Use a /30 across the circuit and do multihop BGP using other IPs.
On Friday 10 July 2009 13:48:15 Jay Nakamura wrote:
> 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.
