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

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Alex Aminoff <alex at basespace.net> wrote:
> On 10/28/2010 1:57 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> The IP space I have is a /24 assigned to me by Cogent. Assignment means I
> can advertise it through BGP peering with anyone I want. I do this now
> through Towerstream. We would keep the Cogent T1 and /24 and use the FIOS
> link as the other uplink, but since Verizon will not BGP peer directly we
> need an ISP peer elsewhere to peer with us over a tunnel.
>
> You can see BaseSpace's route advertisements from AS30183 at any looking
> glass.

Great.   Then I think it's very possible.

Here's a link to the NANOG thread I mentioned:

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg08913.html

The subject line was "any "bring your own bandwidth" IPv4 over IPv4
tunnel merchants?".   You have your own IP space so (and want to do
BGP), but I'm sure someone will be willing to do that...

Bill