You may want to double check your verbage when talking with providers.
Transit = you pay for the bandwidth.
Peering = free and is a mutual agreement between the two providers.
Sounds like you want transit. I'd stop using the "peering" word as it
may be confusing people, including your providers.
Cheers,
Mike
On Oct 31, 2009, at 21:30, Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/10/31 Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us>:
Ken Gilmour wrote:
We have BGP4 networks in other locations (IPv4 and IPv6) - Costa
Rica
being one of the places that don't have it... We would really like
to
be able to implement it here but are finding it difficult to find
SPs
who support Customers who advertise their own PI space.
It doesn't sound like you want peering - specifically AT&T's answer
implies they think you want settlement-free peering when you just
want
to announce your routes via BGP (aka paid transit).
~Seth
Yes - Sorry my initial approach to NANOG was not very specific!
However my approach to the SPs was very specific (and ADN understood
exactly what I wanted when I first approached them and are working on
a quote)... I specifically asked how we would go about getting a
second point-to-point link and peer with them over that link (and for
existing providers such as ICE and RACSA) how we could upgrade our
current contract to allow us to announce our own PI space... I am not
sure how I could be any more specific than that...
Ken
