[afnog] Peering for Route Analysis

[Martin Hannigan]

At 02:32 PM 6/13/2006, Brian Candler wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:24:10AM +0300, Badru Ntege wrote:
> > Can we get advisory comment from those more knowlegable on the list.  Do
> > this help us or Not ???
>
>Depends how good/useful their tool is to you.
>
>Cost to you is:
>
>* Initial setup and on-going management of an external multi-hop BGP peer.
>   Hopefully low effort, but you should take care with initial setup to
>   filter out any routes originating from their side. That's just prudence.
>
>* Bandwidth for relaying BGP updates via your upstream provider.
>   I guess this should be fairly low, if you have flap dampening properly
>   configured, but then again if your own link flaps you could end up
>   dumping a full route table across every time.
>
>Benefit: I don't know the tool, so I can't say how useful it is.
>
>If you don't have to enter into a contract with them to provide service for
>a minimum amount of time, then I guess it's pretty low risk. If you don't


No contract. It's best effort i.e. once we turn it up, we'll 
acknowledge that it's
up with a time stamp and we'll have the account setup completed as well.

-M<









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