On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 11:03:16 PM Bob Evans wrote:
I agree with Bill...going it on the cheap is risky. DOn't consider it for primary. It may be good for backup. I have sold small amounts of transit to non-ISP companies on exchanges (100-200 meg). It's a good extra backup for ISPs, if you setup your local pref, MED and then prepend your AS an extra time or two to the prefixes you transmit. Then if you ever need to use it, it's sitting there waiting to send and receive traffic. I let ISPs customers do that with us for real low cost backup fees.
We don't support that, for example, for reasons stated by many before. Even if we did, we typically don't offer customer services on peering routers. So physically, it would be a nightmare trying to terminate an IP Transit service from a peering member when the only path between us and them is a peering router. Yes, tunneling works, but tunnels <insert your choice of colourful text here>. Mark.