That software might be a good solution for sending them updates, heck a script sending it out every time it detects an update might also cause them to get more excited about automating updates. ;) We also had issues with them wanting a paper (or faxed) LOA which seemed a bit onerous given the number of prefixes we announce. The le 24 matches should have been easy since the reason we wanted them were because we have customers using their own ASNs to announce sub-allocations of our space, a quick look on their part the first time we made the request would have shown that the sub allocations were all originated from downstream ASNs from our network. If anyone has an engineering contact at cogent (ie not the support contact) I would love to talk to them as it seems support department front-end is the problem and not necessarily cogent's actual policies. Thanks, John van Oppen Spectrum Networks LLC 206.973.8302 (Direct) 206.973.8300 (main office) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Wall [mailto:pauldotwall@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 4:30 PM To: John van Oppen Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: cogent bgp filtering policies? Cogent does not support IRR. Since you're using IRR yourself, Richard Steenbergen's IRRPT (irrpt.sf.net) has a script called 'irrpt_nag' which is good for sending automated requests for prefix-list updates with providers that continue to process them manually. You can (and should) ask that Cogent's "Engineering" department okay you for support for de-aggregation down to the /24 level or more specific. They will with proper justification or a general feeling that you've got good reason and aren't just looking to gratuitously de-aggregate prefixes for no reason. Drive Slow, Paul On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:59 AM, John van Oppen <john@vanoppen.com> wrote:
Now that I am on my third round of an email argument with cogent's support department about adding prefixes to our filters (and them not understanding why I want le 24 matches on the blocks from which we allocate subnets to multi-homed customers) I figure it would be a good idea to ask if anyone has ever gotten cogent to setup any IRR based filtering on a customer connection.
100 prefixes and just spent the last few days writing emails and calling trying to get cogent to accept more than 30% of the routes we were announcing. We have IRR (radb to be specific) filters set up with our other four providers which really lowered my tolerance for having to go round and round to get prefixes added. Heck, at this
We are a small-ish regional transit provider in the northwest announcing point I would settle for a direct email address for their engineering department just to avoid the arguments with the support monkeys.
I should note that this is actually the second time I have had this issue (the last time was with one of our customers and their cogent connection) even though we only turned up our service recently.
John van Oppen
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