-----Original Message----- From: ML Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 1:44 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Surcharge for providing Internet routes?
Has anyone here heard of or do they themselves charge extra for providing a complete internet table to customers?
Waive the surcharge for sufficiently large commits?
I had one provider once that wanted to charge me a surcharge simply for the privilege of running BGP. The had "bgp charge" on their list of things. Well, we were dual-homed to them and I asked how in the world they expected to fail traffic over if we *didn't* run bgb. They should be requiring I run bgp, not charging extra for it if they intend to meet their own SLA. Static routing to a dead link is a surefire SLA killer. The sales rep got a little red. As for a full table, no, I have not paid extra for it.