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Is it normal for your provider to withhold BGP peering info until
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (c b)
Thu Jan 21 16:26:42 2016
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From: c b <bz_siege_01@hotmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:26:40 -0700
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We have 4 full-peering providers between two data centers. Our accounting p=
eople did some shopping and found that there was a competitor who came in s=
ubstantially lower this year and leadership decided to swap our most expens=
ive circuit to the new carrier.=20
(I don't know what etiquette is=2C so I won't name the carrier... but it's =
a well-known name)
Anyways=2C we were preparing for the circuit cutover and asked for the BGP =
peering info up front like we normally do. This carrier said that they don'=
t provide this until the night of the cut. Now=2C we've done this 5 or 6 ti=
mes over the years with all of our other carriers and this is the first one=
to ever do this. We even escalated to our account manager and they still w=
on't provide it.
I know it's not a huge deal=2C but life is so much easier when you can pres=
tage your cut and rollback commands. In fact=2C our internal Change Managem=
ent process mandates peer review all proposed config changes and now we hav=
e to explain why some lines say TBD!
Is this a common SOP nowadays? Anyone care to explain why they wouldn't jus=
t provide it ahead of time?
Thanks in advance.
CWB =
