Thank you everyone for your assistance. Either having a tech spot my post and make the change or me calling their bluff got them to fix it. Thanks
--- Brian Raaen Zcorum Network Architect On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Brian Christopher Raaen <mailing-li...@brianraaen.com> wrote: > I have a Time Warner circuit that has been giving me issues and what their > tech support has been telling me has not matched my previous experience > with other backbones. I have been trying to move the backbone on one site > from a tier-3 provider to Time Warner. Yesterday TW started advertising > BGP for the ip blocks I have (68.68.176.0/22 in /24's) before they had the > circuit completed, so I had to make an emergency mid-day switch to move to > Time Warner. Then yesterday night they stopped announcing my blocks so my > site went down again and would still be completely down if we had not added > NAT to the /30 point-to-point link. They said the reason was they didn't > have an LOA (which they had gotten back in October) and the ip blocks were > not in the Level3 Radb list. I could still see announcement to some peers > (Shaw Cable in Canada) in a few looking glasses and BGP routers. However > my network blocks were not showing for the larger US carriers like Qwest > and AT&T. One of their techs just called me back and said that Level3 > should be advertising it, but I still do not see the routes on the AT&T > route server. After noting that the tech said that it may take another day > for BGP to "propagate" to other peers as they update their radb tables. In > my experience I've never seen anything where I had to wait for a route to > propagate other than standard routing table updates which usually take less > then an hour, and I'd really not expect this many problems between Tier1 > and Tier2 providers. I need to know if this matches other's experience and > wanting to know what other people were seeing with traceroutes and "show ip > bgp". The networks in question at the following 4 /24's > > 68.68.176.0/24 > 68.68.177.0/24 > 68.68.178.0/24 > 68.68.179.0/24 > > the serial ip address is 72.43.84.254 > > Thanks for your assistance. > > --- > Brian Raaen > Zcorum > Network Architect
