AT&T and having two BGP peers

Mon Jul 13 14:36:52 UTC 2009

Use a /30 across the circuit and do multihop BGP using other IPs.

On Friday 10 July 2009 13:48:15 Jay Nakamura wrote:
> We are getting an Ethernet DIA circuit from AT&T but they insist that
> they can't BGP peer with 2 routers on our side.  The WAN circuit can
> only have /30 they say.  Has anyone been able to successfully talk
> them in to bending their rule?  If so, how?
>
> I know this should have been negotiated before signing a contract but
> I was unfortunately not in the loop... :(
>
> It seems like a ridiculous bureaucratic restriction.