[126182] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Surcharge for providing Internet routes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Tue May 4 20:34:00 2010
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:32:47 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4BDC9281.50509@kenweb.org>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "ML" <ml@kenweb.org>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ML=20
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 1:44 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Surcharge for providing Internet routes?
>=20
> Has anyone here heard of or do they themselves charge extra for
> providing a complete internet table to customers?
>=20
> Waive the surcharge for sufficiently large commits?
>=20
I had one provider once that wanted to charge me a surcharge simply for
the privilege of running BGP. The had "bgp charge" on their list of
things. Well, we were dual-homed to them and I asked how in the world
they expected to fail traffic over if we *didn't* run bgb. They should
be requiring I run bgp, not charging extra for it if they intend to meet
their own SLA. Static routing to a dead link is a surefire SLA killer.
The sales rep got a little red.
As for a full table, no, I have not paid extra for it.
