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Re: Charging for IPs


From: Justin Streiner via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 17:11:35 -0400

We're doing this pretty widely for internal BGP sessions at $dayjob and it
works very well.

It also allows us to start pulling away from scatter-shot legacy v4 P2P
assignments and replace them with a deployment model that will be cleaner
and more scalable in the long run.

Thank you
jms

On Fri, Sep 4, 2026, 13:23 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.



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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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