There's a bit of a bait-and-switch here. I pay for multiple BGP sessions in the contract, but then when it comes time to provision, you want to go to sales to get the IPs to actually provision those sessions. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Tillery via NANOG" <nanog@lists.nanog.org> To: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog@lists.nanog.org> Cc: "Kevin Tillery" <nanog@immibis.com> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 2:35:42 PM Subject: Re: Charging for IPs On 4 September 2026 18:30:37 CEST, Mike Hammett via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Has anyone else experienced an upstream provider that wants to charge you for the IPs you need to establish BGP sessions?
I understand charging for large blocks, but I literally just got a quote for two /31s. I have an existing contract elsewhere with them, and they gave me 3x /29s gratis (for three different ASNs, sets of BGP sessions, ec.). Now they're charging for each IP.
I thought charging for BGP sessions was ridiculous, but now for individual IPs to use those BGP sessions...
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I'll be the contrarian here. Surely whether or not this is sane depends on the total price and surrounding circumstances. If a provider charges say $200 for a service, whether they itemize it as $200 connection, free BGP, free IPs; or $180 connection, $20 BGP, free IPs; or $1 connection, $9 BGP, $190 for IPs to run BGP on; is entirely up to them and makes little difference. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/Z4AYTAM5...