[115992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T and having two BGP peers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Nakamura)
Wed Jul 15 10:18:43 2009
In-Reply-To: <9418aca70907101048h452520b0sd8681585e4b2709f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:18:28 -0400
From: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
All,
Thanks for the help. I just got word that AT&T approved the two BGP
peering with us. I think telling them others have done it with AT&T
helped.
Much appreciated.
-Jay
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jay Nakamura<zeusdadog@gmail.com> 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. =A0The WAN circuit can
> only have /30 they say. =A0Has anyone been able to successfully talk
> them in to bending their rule? =A0If 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.
>
