[127965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 bgp peer costs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Wed Jul 21 16:02:36 2010
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:57:52 -0700
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C474CB4.9050309@he.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I already have a v6 BGP tunnel with Hurricane Electric and works like a
charm :) It is other vendors I am concerned about.
Zaid
On 7/21/10 12:38 PM, "Mike Leber" <mleber@he.net> wrote:
>
> You can get a free IPv6 BGP tunnel from Hurricane Electric at
> http://tunnelbroker.net
>
> We have tunnel servers spread through out the world, so typically the
> nearest server has reasonably low latency from your location.
>
> Of course our main business is selling wholesale native IPv6 and IPv4
> transit, however you don't have to be a paying customer to use our free
> service.
>
> Mike.
>
> On 7/21/10 12:08 PM, 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zaid
>>
>>
>>
>
