So is the question: you are selling transit to your customers and you are wondering if you should charge your customer for allowing them to use your HSRP gateway instead of a physical interface on your router? Personally, if I saw a provider charging for that service, I would shy away from them. Only because it tells me they are piece-mealing their services and are cheap. I would think a good provider would include that (and/or not sell it WITHOUT HSRP) in their sales offering. If for the only reason of customer support nightmares. If you have your customers on HSRP and you have a router go down, you wont have them calling you every five minutes bitching at you... -Mike On 5/11/07, Randal Kohutek <nanog@data102.com> wrote:
My cohorts in suits have begun wondering if HSRP is standard for customer gateways, and from there wondering if it is something we should charge for. I did some research and came up with mixed results; I'd like to hear nanogers experiences with this:
In your experience, do datacenters provide free HSRP gateways, or do they make you pay for it?
Real world examples are better than Google :) Thanks, Randal