Re: Charging for IPs

[Chance Callahan via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

I truly feel like Cogent is the Batman villian of our world, but more Tim
Burton than Christopher Nolan.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 12:23 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> This will only increase as IPv4 becomes more and more stupid.
>
> I would approach any provider that did so asking if we can simply transit
> our IPv4 routing process over v6 addresses. This is viable on virtually
> every common routing platform today.
>
> Owen
>
>
> > On Sep 4, 2026, at 09:37, Mike Hammett via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
> wrote:
> > I'm not going to say no.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Mike Hammett FD-IX https://fd-ix.com/ DNA Communications
> https://www.dnacom.com/
> > From: "Josh Luthman" <josh () imaginenetworksllc com>
> > To: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog () lists nanog org>
> > Cc: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net>
> > Sent: Friday, September 4, 2026 11:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: Charging for IPs
> >
> >
> > Cogent?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2026, 12:30 PM Mike Hammett via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > Has anyone else experienced an upstream provider that wants to charge
> you for the IPs you need to establish BGP sessions?
> > I understand charging for large blocks, but I literally just got a quote
> for two /31s. I have an existing contract elsewhere with them, and they
> gave me 3x /29s gratis (for three different ASNs, sets of BGP sessions,
> ec.). Now they're charging for each IP.
> > I thought charging for BGP sessions was ridiculous, but now for
> individual IPs to use those BGP sessions...
> > ----- Mike Hammett FD-IX https://fd-ix.com/ DNA Communications
> https://www.dnacom.com/
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