[187183] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it normal for your provider to withhold BGP peering info until
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Corbe)
Thu Jan 21 18:35:17 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Daniel Corbe <dcorbe@hammerfiber.com>
In-Reply-To: <783C627CF58B9948866C2A5DD8C7A90793076798@COLOMBX07.fairwaymc.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:35:05 -0500
To: Ian Mock <ianm@fairwaymc.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> We have 4 full-peering providers between two data centers. Our =
accounting people did some shopping and found that there was a =
competitor who came in substantially lower this year and leadership =
decided to swap our most expensive circuit to the new carrier.=20
> (I don't know what etiquette is, so I won't name the carrier... but =
it's a well-known name) Anyways, 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, we've done this 5 or 6 times 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 won't provide it.
> I know it's not a huge deal, but life is so much easier when you can =
prestage your cut and rollback commands. In fact, our internal Change =
Management process mandates peer review all proposed config changes and =
now we have to explain why some lines say TBD!
> Is this a common SOP nowadays? Anyone care to explain why they =
wouldn't just provide it ahead of time?
> Thanks in advance.
> CWB =20
>=20
My question to the OP would be why didn=92t you schedule the turndown of =
the old circuit to overlap with the turnup of the new circuit? That way =
you could perform your cut independently of turn-up testing with your =
new provider. Why is it that you MUST perform both activities on the =
same night? You can always turn up a circuit, make sure it works and =
then turn it back down on your end until you=92re actually ready to use =
it. =20
