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Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Sat May 26 10:20:00 2012

Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 07:19:24 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: <4FC003B8.5080108@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 5/25/12 15:12 , Seth Mattinen wrote:
> On 5/25/12 3:08 PM, Adam wrote:
>>
>> You also have to implement additional filters to protect yourself from what
>> your client can advertise.  I'm lucky enough to work for a major ISP with
>> pretty sophisticated filters built off the public route registry, but not
>> all ISPs have this functionality.
>>
> 
> Is it really that hard to use a simple prefix list containing the one
> prefix they're allowed to announce and default deny everything else?

If it's built off a registry, the customer can change it without direct
coordination which is a huge labor saving activity.

> ~Seth
> 



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