[59009] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AS-701 multihop BGP peering session?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Jun 11 16:06:14 2003
Reply-To: <deepak@ai.net>
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.Nether.net>,
"Jeffrey Haas" <jhaas@nexthop.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:05:33 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20030611143337.GD6894@puck.nether.net>
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I don't believe that AS701 does it. I seem to recall this from
> hearing about some very complicated process that had to be completed
> for route-views.oregon-ix.net to get their AS701 feed.
>
> This may no longer be the case but seeings as the feed isn't
> there anymore, i'm guessing they still don't do this.
>
I know for a fact that it can be done. I have had this set up with AS701
when we were a customer (>4 years ago). Everything about our set up with
them was very specific and broke a lot of their rules because of the kind of
usage we were putting on them -- they made a lot of exceptions for us. I am
sure none of the guys that were helpful then are still there now, and
moreover, I am not sure if it was because of our size that they were able to
make the exception. I am just chiming in because I know that the exception
has been made on more than one occassion for us. In fact, we have had BGP
views (EBGP-multihop) from several core routers backhauled to us at
different times, and for different reasons. This is all ancient history
though.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
