[127968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 bgp peer costs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Wed Jul 21 16:09:57 2010
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:09:44 -0700
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C474D05.3070108@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/21/10 12:39 PM, "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 7/21/2010 12:08, 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?
>>
>
> Ooh, Verizon? Good luck. Do you know what pop (VZ calles them "hubs")
> your existing circuit is out of? Not all of 701 is IPv6 enabled. If you
> are currently served from a v4 only location you're out of luck.
>
POS-6 SJC
> I ordered an Ethernet circuit from Verizon last year as dual-stack
> IPv4/IPv6. There was no extra cost involved. However, they never did
> actually deliver the layer 3 portion, so I just let them languish into
> obscurity. My problem was that I'm closer to a v4 only pop (Sacramento),
> but the closest 4/6 pop is further away in San Jose. For some reason
> they could not figure out how to go there and kept defaulting to Sac.
> Eventually they called me and said it's just not possible to deliver the
> service. I ended up placing an order with Global Crossing and the
> dual-stack process was completely painless.
Sigh.. Explains why I never got a straight answer on native v6 support.
First they said yes then now Tunnel only. Perhaps time to turn them off.
Zaid
