Jason - chances are they may be unable to peer w/ BGP depending upon who their provider is and what they have contracted for. You want someone that can push your own BGP route - and you want the ability to control your own destiny.
BGP is not that difficult - give me a hollar off list - and I can check the provider your looking into - give you a hint on how to check their connectivity etc When a provider tells you - we cannot do BGP - it is a huge red flag. I know of a provider that gives fiber to office buildings in the city - limits them to say 10mbps on a port and their "head end" is 5 docsis cable modems from Comcast Speed is there - but their provider Comcast did not allow BGP on a cable modem. So - it hurts not knowing the other side of the connection sometimes Glenn On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Jason Hensley wrote: > Provider is solid – but just getting into the actual providing of Internet > connectivity (to this point they have just done fiber transport). I have a > feeling that by the time we actually switch they will have BGP capability > (we’re 6 months out right now) – just trying to figure out if I’m able to > advertise my blocks on my own without BGP at all, or, if I need to use BGP to > advertise them and it just pass on through my upstream. I’m by far not the > most familiar with how BGP works. I’ll probably just do a whole lot of > reading on BGP over the next month or so and get more familiar with it. My > current provider just walked me through the config so it was pretty easy J. > > Thanks! > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Justin Wilson > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:19 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Slightly OT - IP addressing question > > The provider does not do BGP? That doesn’t sound like a provider I would > not want to do business with. > -- > Justin Wilson <[email protected]> > http://www.mtin.net/blog > Wisp Consulting – Tower Climbing – Network Support > > > From: Jason Hensley <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:14:58 -0500 > To: 'WISPA General List' <[email protected]> > Subject: [WISPA] Slightly OT - IP addressing question > > I've got my own ARIN block and right now I'm peered with my upstream running > BGP (single-homed). I'm looking at changing providers but the company I'm > looking at does not do BGP. I'm a little in the dark on route > advertisements, etc, and I don't understand how my block will be accessible > if I'm not running BGP with another provider. I have to give ARIN my peers > ASNs if I remember right, so what happens if I move to someone that possibly > doesn't even have an ASN? Is there some documentation somewhere on this or > someone who can help me out a little bit? > > Thanks! > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com Email: [email protected] Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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