Peering is generally for a comercial endevor to my understandind fios is a residential service so which are you trying to accomplish
Sent from my iPhone On 2012-03-13, at 7:32 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Faisal Imtiaz > <fai...@snappydsl.net> wrote: >> So I have to ask you the big question... >> >> Why do you want to do BGP with Comcast or Verizon ? (Over FIOS or >> Cable ?) >> >> Is the intent to Peer with their network ? (which they will >> rightfully only >> allow on bigger fatter connections).. > > 'peer' has many connotations, I think most of the cases of it over > FIOS are just: "I want bgp so I can announce my prefixes, and see > yours/default/etc" (which leads to 'multihoming' and other normal (for > businesses) activities on the Internet. > >> >> or >> Are you trying to delivery your IP's to a End Customer behind that >> FIOS / >> Cable Connection ? ... >> (there a ways to accomplish this without needing their cooperation..) > > or you are multihomed > or you want some semblence of 'the internet is down' so other bits of > your infrastructure can take over > or you want ... a thousand other things. >