Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

Fri May 25 22:08:28 UTC 2012

Edward's response nailed this one on the head.  It has to do with the
additional support/hardware required to support a BGP session.  Granted,
once a BGP session is established it rarely requires any tweaking, but I've
spent hours troubleshooting a downed BGP session because the client's IPS
signature update decided TCP/179 was malicious.

You also have to implement additional filters to protect yourself from what
your client can advertise.  I'm lucky enough to work for a major ISP with
pretty sophisticated filters built off the public route registry, but not
all ISPs have this functionality.

Adam

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Edward J. Dore <
edward.dore at freethought-internet.co.uk> wrote:

> The only thing that I can really think of is that the BGP sessions do take
> up extra CPU time and memory on the routing engine, so there is an
> additional cost to the provider in terms of needing more routers and/or
> bigger routers if they have lots of customers speaking BGP to them that
> they may not have factored in to their standard pricing.
>
> I guess there is also some extra cost in terms of NOC staff and systems to
> monitor the sessions as well as providing any troubleshooting etc. that
> they wouldn't have to do with "standard" customers that are statically
> routed.
>
> Edward Dore
> Freethought Internet
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> Subject: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?
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> Hello everyone
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>
> I have been aggressively looking for deals in servers in Europe for
> anycasting. One thing which surprises me is the "setup costs" for BGP. Few
> providers quoted additional $50-100 which looks OK but a few of them quoted
> as high as $150 *extra every month* just for having BGP (no full routing
> table, but just default route pointing). Is there's any technical logic
> behind such heavy costs? I mean at the end of day we are all talking at
> layer 3 and thus it does not involves any hard connection/physical work.
> What other members pay for BGP setup costs?
>
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> Thanks!
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