RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-09 Thread Schiller, Heather A
. --Heather -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:18 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Aug 3, 2012, at 12

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-06 Thread Frank Bulk
'; Andy Koch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? I think the term critical is being used in different senses in this discussion. Are people's lives critical? Yes, but the regulations for wired and wireless infrastructure don't require service providers to expend any

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-06 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: Even though we know it's technically possible, service providers aren't going to overprovision power backup unless there is a business reason to do so. Some state PUCs have minimum battery run times -- I'm sure service

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
My point is more along the line of if you're depending on a service which provides only best-effort on uptime (as Bill Herrin mentioned, some providers can barely manage 2 nines of 911 uptime) and to which you're connected by a single, fault-prone connection, and which provides no guarantee of

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 8/5/12, Peter Kristolaitis alte...@alter3d.ca wrote: My point is more along the line of if you're depending on a service which provides only best-effort on uptime (as Bill Herrin mentioned, some providers can barely manage 2 nines of 911 uptime) and to which you're connected by a single,

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread Owen DeLong
Agreed. My point was that the police have the least of all emergency services to do with protection of life and property and that a gun or a dog only helps you with the functions that they can perform. People depend on 911 for much more than just police and if you're trying to come up with an

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread Frank Bulk
: Saturday, August 04, 2012 9:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Residences aren't critical infrastructure, no matter how angry the owners get. 911 access isn't a critical service? Fire and security panels aren't critical services? If basic life safety

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread Frank Bulk
willing, nay, able, to pay that price. Frank -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:15 PM To: Andy Koch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? snip On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Nathan Eisenberg

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: Would I like to have the same uptime at my home as we have in the CO? or data center? Sure, but collectively we aren't willing, nay, able, to pay that price. We paid the price for 3-nines on the home comm service 20 years

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/5/12 9:19 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: Would I like to have the same uptime at my home as we have in the CO? or data center? Sure, but collectively we aren't willing, nay, able, to pay that price. We paid the price for

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-05 Thread Ralph E. Whitmore, III
[mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 7:41 PM To: 'William Herrin'; Andy Koch Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? I think the term critical is being used in different senses in this discussion. Are people's lives critical? Yes

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:52:53AM -1000, William Herrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were, not

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com said: A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were, not enough people to set them and give them their fluids. And it doesn't pay to put a

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:52:53AM -1000, William Herrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Besides, where do you think you're going to get gasoline in a wide-spread extended power failure? Few gas stations have generators, and even if they do, they'll sell out of gas quickly. That distribution system also needs

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Mike Jones
On 4 August 2012 04:07, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: As someone else posted, many FTTH installations are centralized as much as possible to avoid having non-passive equipment in the plant, allowing for the practicality of onsite generators. That's what we do. But for those who have

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, William Herrin b...@herrin.us said: I managed to get gasoline for my generator. I had to drive upwards of 5 miles and pass as many as 7 closed stations to get it. But it was available and if I'd planned better with respect to containers to carry it in I'd have had zero

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 8/4/12, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: long-haul fiber all stayed up. Most of the other problems were because of the power failure (some local fiber rings dropped, especially one CLEC's that puts their nodes in customer premises and were broken by customers' power failures). [snip]

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Well, in North Alabama in April 2011, we had to drive a lot more than 5 miles (unless you left a 0 off the end). Across the Tennessee state line (a good bit north of it) they had power, but they quickly ran out of gas (and

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/4/12 8:44 AM, Mike Jones wrote: On 4 August 2012 04:07, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: As someone else posted, many FTTH installations are centralized as much as possible to avoid having non-passive equipment in the plant, allowing for the practicality of onsite generators. That's

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Frank Bulk
...@herrin.us] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:56 AM To: Chris Adams; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? snip Got news for these folks: if you have cable on the poles spidering in to lots of homes and businesses you are a critical infrastructure provider and you need

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Residences aren't critical infrastructure, no matter how angry the owners get. 911 access isn't a critical service? Fire and security panels aren't critical services? If basic life safety and property protection aren't critical services, I'm not sure what is. These are peoples' lives and

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
Considering that none of the services that can be dispatched by 911 are legally required to help you in most North American jurisdictions (i.e. if you call 911 and the police don't respond until they finish eating their box of donuts, they're not criminally or civilly liable), having working

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Andy Koch gawu...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 4, 2012, at 11:56, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: 100 miles isn't a serious logistics problem with 500 gallons of fuel tank in the bed of a pickup truck. That buys you 8-12 hours for 100 fiber huts with $500

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Owen DeLong
I've never met a dog properly trained in ACLS and I'm pretty sure that a gun isn't even useful for BLS. Owen On Aug 4, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Peter Kristolaitis alte...@alter3d.ca wrote: Considering that none of the services that can be dispatched by 911 are legally required to help you in most

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Mike Jones m...@mikejones.in wrote: If only they had some kind of copper cabling running from some kind of central location [...] (poor power distribution efficiency would probably stop you wanting to power it that way all the time). I imagine the problem

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Richard Miller
This is a fascinating thread! I have had multiple class C address blocks assigned to us for many years (since the 80's) I have 2 T1 connections and one of them is up for contract renewal. I have wanted to replace one of the expensive T1s for a long time. DSL and Cable are available here at

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Richard Miller rmil...@millerad.com wrote: I am stumped. Any ideas? time to migrate to carriers that care about you and your business?

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Marlatt
On 08/03/2012 10:31 AM, Richard Miller wrote: --snip-- Perhaps I can route to a co-located server then a tunnel back to the server farm over a static IP DSL or Cable link??? I am stumped. Any ideas? Rich That would indeed be a solution to your problem. Have a cheap colo somewhere. Have

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Alain Hebert
Hi, Yes the easier way to do it is have your subnet routed to someone that is willing to colo your router, or provide your with something like NHRP, and use a 87x on your brand new unnamed Cable/DSL provider to create a NHRP tunnel for it. We have many customers which required

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net wrote: Yes the easier way to do it is have your subnet routed to someone that is willing to colo your router, or provide your with something like NHRP, and use a 87x on your brand new unnamed Cable/DSL provider to create a

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Marlatt
On 08/03/2012 11:44 AM, Richard Miller wrote: Chris, Been thinking about taking that route no pun intended. It just moves the main link off-site. We've had these T1s for so long the maintenance and ops have become second nature. Someone should be able to route over a DSL/Cable/whatever link.

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Richard Miller rmil...@millerad.com wrote: I am stumped. Any ideas? time to migrate to carriers that care about you and your business? The tough part there is that Verizon is not required (as I understand it)

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/3/12 8:56 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net wrote: Yes the easier way to do it is have your subnet routed to someone that is willing to colo your router, or provide your with something like NHRP, and use a 87x on your brand new

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 8/3/12 8:56 AM, William Herrin wrote: It seems the telcos and cable companies don't consider the commodity Internet part of their equipment to be something which needs electricity during an extended grid outage. Cox.

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:31 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 8/3/12 8:56 AM, William Herrin wrote: It seems the telcos and cable companies don't consider the commodity Internet part of their equipment to be

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:31 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Could be worse. I could have Pepco instead of Dominion. But it could be better. And 20 years ago the reliability was. 20 years ago you didn't have a megabit to

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Frank Bulk
rare instances where the battery does not suffice. Frank -Original Message- From: William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 2:31 PM To: Seth Mattinen Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Seth Mattinen

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:17 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:31 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Could be worse. I could have Pepco instead of Dominion. But it could be better. And 20 years

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were, not enough people to set them and give them their fluids. Doesn't take a

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Wallace Keith
-Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:27 PM To: 'William Herrin' Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 3, 2012, at 14:17 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:31 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Could be worse. I could have Pepco instead of Dominion. But it could be better. And 20 years ago

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Joe Provo
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:01:35PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: [snip] If you're that concerned about calling 911 for a heat stroke, why don't you maintain a POTS line? Choices are great but carry responsibility and result in consequences. Some folks don't like to hear that, or just can't be

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-03 Thread Frank Bulk
@nanog.org; Seth Mattinen Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-15 Thread Frank Bulk
:18 PM To: William Herrin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:19:16 -0400, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Nope. I have FiOS and the 5 IPs. They are 5 IPs, in sequence, at a completely arbitrary location in a /24 subnet. ... Time Warner

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Is that is needed, what is wrong with that ? Isn't MPLS a form of encapsulation ? Don't the enterprise folks run routing protocols on it ? With carriers today it is very common to deliver L2 connectivity over L3 networks. One does not have to like it...and just because someone else (upstream)

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
in the DSL world, when we were providing service using Bridge PVC's, it was easier to allocate (as many needed) /32 to a customer CPE, than to route a subnet. This changed when the ATT/BellSouth infrastructure changed from being able to get ATM PVC's to PPPoE only network. Faisal Imtiaz

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net Is that is needed, what is wrong with that ? Well, we just had FiOS Business 150/65 dropped this week, and my /27 isn't even a /27; we're sharing a /24 with, presumably, a bunch of other customers. Not sure how BGP would

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp settings. (it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...) Allows you to have a 'flat network' for all your subs, and

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Yes, Dane is not only very smart but also a very sharp and savvy business operator.. But I am also sure they are not doing this as a 'no charge' offering for a 'resi' circuit. Most competitive ISP's (such as Sonic and ourselves) a very flexible to customer's needs and are willing to support

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:19:16 -0400, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: Nope. I have FiOS and the 5 IPs. They are 5 IPs, in sequence, at a completely arbitrary location in a /24 subnet. ... Time Warner (TWTC, not TWC) does the same thing... we have 8 addresses from them... 131 - 138; it's a

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: Most competitive ISP's (such as Sonic and ourselves) a very flexible to customer's needs and are willing to support custom configurations but .. it has to make business sense...and the underlying infrastructure be able to support that configuration.

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: The point (and this goes back to my original post) was that VZ is missing out on revenue (and customer service, but let's not get ahead of ourselves...) opportunities by not offering such a thing as an add-on

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Keegan Holley
In defense of the tier 1's it's not as easy as it looks to run BGP with the lower end business customers. On the technical side the edge boxes and links to them would be as overloaded with routes and peers and all of the other PE boxes in an ISP network. Not to mention the changes in routing

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
On 3/14/2012 3:32 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: Most competitive ISP's (such as Sonic and ourselves) a very flexible to customer's needs and are willing to support custom configurations but .. it has to make business sense...and the underlying

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us Well... they brand it as a SOHO service and AFAICT they refuse to install business fios anywhere zoned commercial. I have Business FiOS in 2 rented commercial properties; business office space. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R.

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: while this is reasonable, we all have to keep in mind, that you can I can 'toss' in route-reflectors for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars each... Folks like VZ and ATT pay top dollars for top capacity equipment to handle stuff.. so you are

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net writes: I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp settings. (it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...) AFAIK Verizon

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net writes: I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net writes: I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: So it was _one_ of the drivers, but was it a more major driver than for the love of God, not Redback!?  :) I think there were some significant issues with the redback of the time, but ... near as I recall a

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 3/14/2012 9:00 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Christopher Morrowmorrowc.li...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Robert E. Seastromr...@seastrom.com wrote: Faisal Imtiazfai...@snappydsl.net writes: I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Joseph Snyder
I will just say no on all parts of this current part of the conversation and leave it at that. - j Curtis Maurand cmaur...@xyonet.com wrote: On 3/14/2012 9:00 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Christopher Morrowmorrowc.li...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Robert E.

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers.  Their website is relatively lean on details.  Everything that mentions BGP

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread chris
Haha true that. How else would.they.push their atm and.Ethernet products. chris On Mar 13, 2012 7:04 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:09 PM, chris tknch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 13, 2012 7:04 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to determine if

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, William Herrin wrote: A cost I could live with. It's the fact that they won't sell me BGP service in the FiOS product line *at all* that makes me pine for the days of FCC mandated unbundling. Having the same problem with Comcast, even on there business Cable service they

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread chris
Comcast same deal ethernet only chris On Mar 13, 2012 7:42 PM, Nathan Stratton nat...@robotics.net wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, William Herrin wrote: A cost I could live with. It's the fact that they won't sell me BGP service in the FiOS product line *at all* that makes me pine for the days

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, chris wrote: Comcast same deal ethernet only Yep, I got a quote for that, 7K a month yet I can get 100 meg on a gig circuit for $400 bucks from them in a datacenter. Oh, and the 7K is NOT to cover build out, did I forget to mention that node for my area is in MY

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: All: I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers.  Their website is relatively lean on details.  Everything that mentions

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
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).. or Are you trying to delivery your IP's to a End Customer

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
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

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: Why do you want to do BGP with Comcast or Verizon ? (Over FIOS or Cable ?) To gain redundancy for a consulting client. Is the intent to Peer with their network ? (which they will rightfully only allow on bigger fatter connections).. I think you

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Gauvin
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

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: A) DHCP only, single address, dynamic B) Single Static address (uplift of 25$/month I believe?) I think that might be $40/mo now, but I could be mistaken. Also, I know that on 701 the rate of BGP to non-BGP customers was increasing and was at

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Grant Ridder
4 of the 6 downstreams are multihomed. Only 40321 (Emigrant Bank) and 18762 (Dominick Dominick LLC) are single homed to 19262 (Verizon Online LLC). -Grant On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Christopher Morrow wrote: A)

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote: 4 of the 6 downstreams are multihomed. Only 40321 (Emigrant Bank) and 18762 (Dominick Dominick LLC) are single homed to 19262 (Verizon Online LLC). yup... vz had for quite some time actual 'network' customers behind

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Mark Gauvin mgau...@dryden.ca wrote: Peering is generally for a comercial endevor to my understandind fios is a residential service so which are you trying to accomplish 'peering' really is a loaded term... 'settlement free peering' ? 'bgp peering' ? there

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread david peahi
What is the SLA for FIOS? I believe that FIOS uses either PON or GPON technology where a single data wavelength is split up to 32 times resulting in a shared pipe back to the CO. Does Verizon offer any SLA at all for FIOS? On the other hand Verizon Wireless offers BGP peering for business

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Sorry, by saying Peering I mean any kind of direct peering.. As to the other reason for running BGP, there are technical solutions to get around this 'lack of cooperation'. Personally speaking, asking for BGP peering on a 'resi' grade service is like going to McDonalds, and asking for a

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Owen DeLong
C) 5 ips STATICALLY ROUTED AS /32's!! (WTF??) for 25$ above the option-B above/month. And people wonder why Verizon is the first to whine about routing table growth from deaggregation? ;-) In all seriousness, though, I don't think they are routed as /32s. I think that's one for the

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: C) 5 ips STATICALLY ROUTED AS /32's!! (WTF??) for 25$ above the option-B above/month. And people wonder why Verizon is the first to whine about routing table growth from deaggregation? ;-) eh, these end up (I think)

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: C) 5 ips STATICALLY ROUTED AS /32's!! (WTF??) for 25$ above the option-B above/month. And people wonder why Verizon is the first to whine about routing table growth from deaggregation? ;-) In all seriousness, though, I

RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Frank Bulk
One possible avenue is put a router/computer in a colo and build a GRE tunnel over your FiOS connection to the data center, and then peer with folk there. Frank -Original Message- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:strei...@cluebyfour.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:27 PM To:

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread chris
next lets encapsulate bgp over http next so we can run bgp at wifi hotspots :) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.com wrote: One possible avenue is put a router/computer in a colo and build a GRE tunnel over your FiOS connection to the data center, and then peer with

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: C) 5 ips STATICALLY ROUTED AS /32's!! (WTF??) for 25$ above the option-B above/month. And people wonder why Verizon is the first to whine about routing table

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Interesting. I guess to each their own. Many other providers I know are selling 5 IP packages done the other way. many providers are not crazy yes I agree.