Re: Hurricane Electric ISP custom routing via BGP communities

[Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>]

I wish this would have good outcomes, but almost no customers use
advanced features, which cost money to develop and maintain.

Likely by voting with your feet, support expensive customers aggregate
to feature full companies, and support cheap customers aggregate to
feature empty companies, creating perverse incentive, especially in
such markets as IP transit, which is largely seen as interchangeable
and the only metric is cost.

Nanog is unfortunately not representative.

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 at 15:16, Christopher Hawker <chris () thesysadmin au> wrote:
> Nope, for that exact reason. AS6939 is the only transit provider that charges to use BGP communities AFAIK. It's just 
> another way for them to make $$$ and the only way it'll change is to vote with your feet.
>
> - CH
>
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> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin.au () nanog org> on behalf of Edvinas Kairys <edvinas.email () gmail com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 12:02:05 AM
> To: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Hurricane Electric ISP custom routing via BGP communities
>
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone tried to use Hurricane Electric ISP custom routing via BGP communities ?
>
> I thought that a provider with such a Tier would allow customers to influence inbound (to customer) routing using 
> additional BGP communities.
> But seems they don't have free service for that, they're offering $200/mo fee per session to make the custom 
> communities work.  I'm shocked:)



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