[156915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC becomes Visio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Fri Sep 28 22:40:57 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:41:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: mike.lyon@gmail.com, sethm@rollernet.us
In-Reply-To: <CAFFgAjCmuFrZ8kn_puPcfLsVu36shDWoUVDzKwcM1UDGp6A0pA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> > On 9/28/12 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
> > > Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a
> > > customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I
> > > dont know).
> > >
> > > Has anybody else seen this brain damage?
> >
> > Hand draw two squares, label them "our AS" and "your AS" with a line
> > between them labeled "GigE". Bonus points for pencil.
> >
>
> And super duper bonus points is you draw pigeons carrying packets between
> the two blocks and stating that you are RFC 1149 compliant.
>
No, no, *NO*!!
The proper approach is to ask the vendor for RFC 1149 trasport for the BGP
session, and whether it terminates in a shared cage, or if a fully private
one is required. Including an 'envionmental impact statement'. Explaining
that this info is required in order to produce an accurate Visio diagram.
