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 <ch...@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 > > Get Outlook for Android > ________________________________ > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+chris=thesysadmin...@nanog.org> on behalf of > Edvinas Kairys <edvinas.em...@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:) -- ++ytti
