[119186] in North American Network Operators' Group
BGP Peer Selection Considerations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adel@baklawasecrets.com)
Mon Nov 9 12:39:49 2009
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:40:07 +0000
From: adel@baklawasecrets.com
Reply-To: adel@baklawasecrets.com
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Hi,
Thanks to everyone that replied to my post on failover configuration. This=
has lead me to this post. I'm at a point now where I'm looking at dual-ho=
ming with two BGP peers upstream. Now what I am looking at doing is as fol=
lows:
BGP Peer with Provider A who is multihomed to other providers.
BGP Peer with Provider B who is not peered with provider A
I have an existing relationship with provider A, colo, cross connects etc. =
Provider A has offered to get the PI space, ASN number, purchase the trans=
it for us with provider B and manage cross connects to provider B (they say=
they have a diverse "fibre backhaul network"). This is quite attractive f=
rom a support and billing perspective. Also suspect that provider A will b=
e able to get more attractive pricing from Provider B than I would be able =
to.
Am I missing things that I need to consider?
