Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!
Hi, My recent inquiry to some network provider reveals that they are charging fee for per /24 announced. Obvious that would means they get to charge a lot with little to none efforts on their side. In a world we are charging total bytes transferred instead of bps on uplinks, i can't say I'm surprised that much. But does anyone else had same experience? Did you pay? Is this the new status quo now? Thanks.
* Yucong Sun
My recent inquiry to some network provider reveals that they are charging fee for per /24 announced. Obvious that would means they get to charge a lot with little to none efforts on their side.
In a world we are charging total bytes transferred instead of bps on uplinks, i can't say I'm surprised that much. But does anyone else had same experience? Did you pay? Is this the new status quo now?
Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing slots seems like a Good Thing to me. Tore
if that is the intent, they should charge per prefix. Not per /24 eqiv. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 00:20 Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> wrote:
* Yucong Sun
My recent inquiry to some network provider reveals that they are charging fee for per /24 announced. Obvious that would means they get to charge a lot with little to none efforts on their side.
In a world we are charging total bytes transferred instead of bps on uplinks, i can't say I'm surprised that much. But does anyone else had same experience? Did you pay? Is this the new status quo now?
Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
Tore
Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
Paid to whom? Yes, it would be nice to put more backpressure on announcements to get the size of the DFZ down. But unless you can figure out how to get the money from the people announcing the routes to the people actually running the backbone routers, fees are just a way for providers to extract more money from their customers. R's, John
I was once with a provider that charged something stupid like $500 per BGP session. This really isn't that big of a surprise. On 10 Dec 2014, at 8:33 pm, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
Paid to whom?
Yes, it would be nice to put more backpressure on announcements to get the size of the DFZ down. But unless you can figure out how to get the money from the people announcing the routes to the people actually running the backbone routers, fees are just a way for providers to extract more money from their customers.
R's, John
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