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Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

  • From: John Payne
  • Date: Thu Jan 17 11:11:20 2008
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On Jan 16, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Mike Donahue wrote:

2. What's the technical terminology for the request for AT&T to simply
start advertising our netblock called? I'm wondering if they're not
understanding our request.

According to the cached copy of AT&T's bgp4policy.doc at:

http://www.onesc.net/communities/as7018/bgp4policy.pdf

You should just be able to setup BGP with a private ASN. It's not quite what you asked for, but it should be "in policy" at AT&T.

I know we've run into providers that absolutely insist on a customer router even inside the provider's colo, and plenty more that don't. "Their network, their rules".

I'm assuming you have a switch connected to the ethernet handoff. A lot of 1U switches now will do a little bit of layer 3 (including BGP) so it shouldn't necessarily add any equipment to your setup to accomplish this.

Ethernet handoff on one VLAN, your servers on the other... BGP session announcing your /24 with a private-as, and accepting default only (or dropping all routes and running with a static default, whatever floats your boat).