[151259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Wed Mar 14 09:38:00 2012
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:36:05 -0400
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappydsl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Reply-To: Faisal@snappydsl.net
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I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network...
however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it
would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp settings.
(it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...)
Allows you to have a 'flat network' for all your subs, and there is a
mechanism built in to allow for assign static ip's and also not allowing
for someone to 'fake' / 'steal' someone else assigned IP's. This is
nice, because one can be very efficient in their use of IPv4 addresses....
This is why I had said earlier that some of these networks are built
with infrastructure that is not designed / meant to run advance routing
protocols for an End User customers... too much overhead in running bgp
sessions to hand off a single IP or even a /29 ........
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet& Telecom
On 3/14/2012 9:13 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Faisal Imtiaz"<faisal@snappydsl.net>
>> Is that is needed, what is wrong with that ?
> Well, we just had FiOS Business 150/65 dropped this week, and my /27 isn't
> even a /27; we're sharing a /24 with, presumably, a bunch of other customers.
>
> Not sure how BGP would handle that...
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
