[151267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Wed Mar 14 14:42:15 2012
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F609EC5.4000906@snappydsl.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:41:01 -0700
To: "Faisal@snappydsl.net" <Faisal@snappydsl.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As far as I know only ISP that will let you do BGP with them on DSL is =
Sonic and their Fusion service is awesome but very limited to bay area.
they rock though.
mehmet
On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:36 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
> I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network...
> however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it=20=
> would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp settings.=20=
> (it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...)
>=20
> Allows you to have a 'flat network' for all your subs, and there is a=20=
> mechanism built in to allow for assign static ip's and also not =
allowing=20
> for someone to 'fake' / 'steal' someone else assigned IP's. This is=20
> nice, because one can be very efficient in their use of IPv4 =
addresses....
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> This is why I had said earlier that some of these networks are built=20=
> with infrastructure that is not designed / meant to run advance =
routing=20
> protocols for an End User customers... too much overhead in running =
bgp=20
> sessions to hand off a single IP or even a /29 ........
>=20
>=20
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet& Telecom
>=20
>=20
> 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.
>>=20
>> Not sure how BGP would handle that...
>>=20
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
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