[127957] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: v6 bgp peer costs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Wed Jul 21 15:34:29 2010
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: <marcoh@marcoh.net>, <zaid@zaidali.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:34:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <D8AD8452-A470-481B-8DE9-52C6C76EC3A3@marcoh.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is dual-stacking with an edge device considered native? Or is "true" native=
when you have
an edge device or any network device for that matter that's v6 only?=20
Just curious....
> Subject: Re: v6 bgp peer costs?
> From: marcoh@marcoh.net
> Date: Wed=2C 21 Jul 2010 21:22:14 +0200
> To: zaid@zaidali.com
> CC: nanog@nanog.org
>=20
>=20
> On 21 jul 2010=2C at 21:08=2C Zaid Ali wrote:
>=20
> > 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 ridic=
ulous
> > and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers pu=
t 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?
>=20
> I think the main question here would be=2C what they would charge for a c=
hange to a v4 session. Most likely they just decided that setting up the tu=
nnel and configuring BGP takes time and since time is money they decided to=
charge for you. Seems like a reasonabe rule of business=2C why should it b=
e free ? At the same time=2C the same set of economics will probably find y=
ou somebody who will do this for less and maybe even is happy to take your =
business and setup v4/v6 dual stack for free.
>=20
> So get a quote from a competitor=2C call back 701 and offer them the choi=
ce of setting up the tunnel or loose a customer. My personal preference wou=
ld be to leave and find somebody who can do native all the way.
>=20
> MarcoH
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