Or, quite a number of carriers (especially in APAC, some carriers in Canada, a few in the US, and definitely a large number in Europe) will say “do you have an IRR entry at RADB?” and if you say yes then they will use the route object information but if you say no then they will tell you to open a ticket with their NOC each time you have a prefix to add/remove ….
I’m actually surprised by the number of transit providers that don’t’ support automation via IRR Paul From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: May 13, 2016 9:25 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Upstream BGP Questionairre Let me clarify this a bit more... You are recommending that one creates it's own AS Object in the IRR..(aka learns and manages their own RR entries) (it really does not matter which IRR it is, at the end of the day they are all sort of synced, it is only a question of who is maintaining it, and who can provide help to newbies). .. BTW, I agree with this.. however .... Cause at the end of the day, someone in the up-stream is very likely to create the record for you, if it is needed by them... This is one of those things that most carriers find... "too much trouble to teach vs just do it for that network !" :) Regards. 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 <mailto:supp...@snappytelecom.net> _____ From: "George Skorup" <geo...@cbcast.com <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com> > To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 7:15:26 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Upstream BGP Questionairre 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 <mailto:supp...@snappytelecom.net> _____ From: "That One Guy /sarcasm" <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> To: af@afmug.com <mailto: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. -- 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.
