[127955] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 bgp peer costs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco Hogewoning)
Wed Jul 21 15:22:31 2010
From: Marco Hogewoning <marcoh@marcoh.net>
In-Reply-To: <C86C93AA.4F85B%zaid@zaidali.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:22:14 +0200
To: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 21 jul 2010, at 21:08, Zaid Ali wrote:
> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a =
v6
> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided =
(Same
> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in
> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite =
ridiculous
> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers =
put a
> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though =
so I
> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone =
through a
> similar experience?
I think the main question here would be, what they would charge for a =
change to a v4 session. Most likely they just decided that setting up =
the tunnel and configuring BGP takes time and since time is money they =
decided to charge for you. Seems like a reasonabe rule of business, why =
should it be free ? At the same time, the same set of economics will =
probably find you somebody who will do this for less and maybe even is =
happy to take your business and setup v4/v6 dual stack for free.
So get a quote from a competitor, call back 701 and offer them the =
choice of setting up the tunnel or loose a customer. My personal =
preference would be to leave and find somebody who can do native all the =
way.
MarcoH
