RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-12 Thread Hallgren, Michael
At 5:52 PM +0200 5/11/2000, Dollard Morgan wrote: right, i understand that just fine, and i know where ebgp multihop is to be used. what i dont understand is WHY would u want to cross over ur isp, plus whatever other transit as u'll have to go through to hit another isp u do want to

RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-12 Thread Dollard Morgan
d'origine- De: Hallgren, Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: vendredi 12 mai 2000 10:38 À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:RE: BGP peering question At 5:52 PM +0200 5/11/2000, Dollard Morgan wrote: right, i understand that just fine, and i know where ebgp multihop

Re: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
A friend of mine has the following problem: I've been given the project of establishing peering connections with other ISP's/carriers. The biggest problem I have is finding the right dept to call or e-mail. Take AOL for example, 40% of our traffic is destined for AOL, can't find a clue on how

RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Dollard Morgan
EXACTLY. so why would any1 go above lets say 3, 4 id say max 5 ebgp hops. -Message d'origine- De: Hallgren, Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: jeudi 11 mai 2000 18:00 À:Dollard Morgan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:RE: BGP peering question right, i know when

RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Hallgren, Michael
Holmes'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet:RE: BGP peering question One situation where you may use ebgp-multihop is when sharing over some set of serials, where the Loopback's - peers - for the session isn't directly connected. mh ok, i dont think this is a valid question. when peering

RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Hallgren, Michael
One situation where you may use ebgp-multihop is when sharing over some set of serials, where the Loopback's - peers - for the session isn't directly connected. mh ok, i dont think this is a valid question. when peering bgp sessions to an external as, u add a command called bgp beighbor

Re: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Kent Hundley
Surf to http://www.networksolutions.com and search the "whois" database for the domains in question. It should list the administrative and technical contacts. The info may be out of date but it is the best place to start. HTH, Kent Dale Holmes wrote: A friend of mine has the following

Re: BGP peering question - more info

2000-05-11 Thread Dale Holmes
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BGP peering question Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:01:18 -0400 A friend of mine has the following problem: I've been given the project of establishing peering connections with other ISP's/carriers. The biggest problem I have is finding the right de

RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Joe Szczepanski
snipped from Howards email I don't know of any usage where you would BGP peer, in either sense of peering, with another AS to which you don't have a direct connection. I'm lost. Who wants to peer across multiple AS? Do they have any rationale for doing so? Thats what we are trying

RE: BGP peering question

2000-05-11 Thread Dan Sneddon
Your friend is a bit confused about the usage and purpose of BGP. Generally you only peer with your upstream providers, and only if you are multi-homed with more than one ISP. Here's a URL that might help your friend understand BGP better: http://www.netaxs.com/~freedman/bgp.html If you peer