PI space and colocation
Chris Ranch
CRanch at Affinity.com
Wed Jan 18 20:39:12 UTC 2006
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:10 PM, Pat wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> >>> Is it a reasonable alternative to establish a BGP connection with
> >>> the provider over ethernet?
> >>
> >> It is technical feasible, but I don't think 'reasonable'.
> Stub ASes
> >> are pollution on the 'Net.
> >
> > We've done this as well. Whats wrong with letting the customer use
> > their ASN and BGP peering with them in your data center?
> They might
> > even get a connection to someone else there and multihome again.
> > Either way, the routes are getting into the global table...does the
> > end of the aspath matter that much?
>
> It adds zero useful data to the global table, but increases
> RAM, CPU, etc. on every router looking at the global table.
>
> Given how vociferously people argue against items in the
> table which _do_ add useful data, superfluous info should be
> avoided whenever possible. IMHO, of course.
In the past under these circumstances, if the customer still insists on
BGP after I strongly recommeded just a static DFG, I'd peer with the
customer with a private AS (64512-65535). Then they usually ask me to
annouce a DFG to them. Sometimes they'd want a full table. Sigh.
At least they'd have the future flexibility of adding another provider
without much change. I've personally done that too.
Chris
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