Re: Charging for IPs

[Brian Knight via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Never mind the knowledge gaps in supporting and managing this, systems 
updates to handle this, educating customers on how to deploy, etc.

I have never heard of something like this being deployed on IP circuits.

From a configuration standpoint, without testing it, is it as easy as 
configuring an IPV6 BGP neighbor with an IPV4 unicast AFI/SAFI? And the 
received routes appear in the table with an IPV6 NH?

-Brian


On 2026-09-04 12:23, Owen DeLong via NANOG 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 
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