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RE: v6 bgp peer costs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sipes, Nathan)
Wed Jul 21 15:30:51 2010
From: "Sipes, Nathan" <Nathan_Sipes@kindermorgan.com>
To: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:30:33 -0600
In-Reply-To: <C86C93AA.4F85B%zaid@zaidali.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I recently began the process of turning up BGP to AS 701 with both V4 and V=
6 peers and there were no additional costs.=20
Nathan Sipes
Sr. Network Design Specialist
Tel: 303-914-4996
FAX: 303-763-3510=A0
Kinder Morgan
370 Van Gordon St
Lakewood, CO
80228
Nathan_Sipes@kindermorgan.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Zaid Ali [mailto:zaid@zaidali.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:08 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: v6 bgp peer costs?
I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 B=
GP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same circ=
uit 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 wil=
l certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a direct pri=
ce tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I am not su=
re who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a similar ex=
perience?
Thanks,
Zaid
