[BBLISA] need a BGP tunnel peer (was Re: comcast ... again)

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alex Aminoff <alex at basespace.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, K. M. Peterson wrote:
>
>> (like a colleague who called their
>> "business class" sales guy and asked about BGP...).
>>
>
> It seems clear that neither Comcast nor Verizon will BGP peer with you
> over cable or DSL or FIOS, no matter how expensive a business class
> service you buy. Under these circumstances, does anyone know of an ISP
> that would BGP peer with me through a tunnel? Ideally one that was a
> direct peer or short hops from Verizon.
>
> The background is that this is for BaseSpace.net. We may be moving, and
> the new location may have FIOS. It would be wonderful to be able to make
> use of that large pipe, but it won't help unless we can use BGP for
> reundancy.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,

I asked about something like this on the NANOG mailing list in the
last year or so.  I got a few responses on the list and quite a few
off list.   In my case, I was thinking about just using it to bypass
Comcast filtering and to get access to more address space.   It sounds
like you want to setup a second link and continue to use the same
address space (via BGP announcements).  Unless you actually own your
current address space (i.e. not delegated by a provider), I believe
this is going to be difficult to do as most ISPs are going to ignore
the new BGP announcement that is going to
come for the address space you are using.   In fact, it might even be
a violation of your terms of service with your current provider to get
someone to do this for you.  OTOH, all of the above is based on
"reading" knowledge rather then recent experience.  I know there are
people on this list who actually do this kind of thing.   Hopefully
they will be able to provide more definitive information.

Good Luck,
Bill