[165326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: will ISP peer with 2 local WAN routers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Thu Aug 29 20:38:13 2013
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:38:03 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Adam Greene <maillist@webjogger.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <014a01ce9ac0$1cab26a0$560173e0$@webjogger.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Adam Greene wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> I have a customer who peers via eBGP with Lightpath aka Cablevision (AS
> 6128) and Level3 (AS 3356) and wants to do some dual-WAN router redundancy.
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I am not optimistic for your odds in having 6128 do anything other than
/30 for you.
(Though even then you still have options, up to and including eem IP
takeover)
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> I have heard that carriers will sometimes agree to set up a /29 WAN subnet
> for a customer and peer with (2) customer routers.
Carriers who do that and more are my favorites.
