I recommend adding your route or AS objects in ARIN's IRR. Merit RADb is
not free. Most carriers use RADb, and RADb mirrors ARIN's IRR anyway.
On 5/13/2016 3:49 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
See answers in-line below:-
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net
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*From: *"That One Guy /sarcasm" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
*To: *af@afmug.com
*Sent: *Friday, May 13, 2016 11:35:10 AM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] Upstream BGP Questionairre
Im going to expose the breadth of my incompetence here, but there
are some questions in this document I want to make sure im
answering accurately
1. Are you the owner of the AS Number with RIR- This im assuming
is our ARIN direct allocation?
They are asking if you have a AS # assigned to you from ... (would be
ARIN for North America).
2. Are you registered with an Internet Routing Registry? - Im not
sure what this is, is this also ARIN or do I need to register
something elsewhere?
Routing Registry.... it is a way to build authorized prefixes from a
DataBase...
You can read up about it from here
https://www.arin.net/resources/routing/
Justin Wilson did a blog about it too... http://www.mtin.net/blog/?p=245
and yes ARIN also provides a Routing Registry Service ... (along with
a few others)
3. Which type of routes do you want to receive? - Full routes is
what we want, but are there caveats in this answer I need to be
prepared for?
No Caveats, as long as your equipment is able to take full routes,
then do so.
4. Do you have downstream ASNs? - I assume this would be customers
with their own allocations? We currently do not, but do not want
to close the door on that in the future. Is this something easily
updated in the future?
Answer this question in the Present.. (you don't have any so say
no)... no future door is closed due to this... this is just info asked
/ collected for the upstream to be able to build their ACL filters....
(This is also a flag for them to collect your BGP LOA's as well as
your Customers to you..)
This becomes a mute topic, if you are versed in using the Routing
Registry and maintaining your own Route Objects etc.
5. List all prefixes to be announced so that we can confirm the
BGP ACL prior to activation: We only have a /22, but we do want
the option down the road to pull /24 from one provider if need be.
Would we list the /24s independently or the /22 as the aggregate?
You want to ask them for the following:-
xx.xx.xx.xx/22 please use the 'le 24' option with the filter.
Note: this will have them build a filter that can accept larger
prefixes between 24 - 22, so it is not a 'specific' filter...
6. MD5 Password: On this is it standard practice to use the same
password with all providers or different ones?
Your choice... either way.... no big deal, as long as you keep track
of them.
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If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see
your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of
the team.
