Whenever we set up a bgp peer we do that to minimize downtime when doing maint. It's hit or miss. HE required a second physicall connection NTT was more than accommodating.
On Oct 13, 2016 15:06, "Mike Poublon" <mpoub...@secantnet.net> wrote: > I started a thread around the same topic back on 10/16 of 2014. A Comcast > engineer (who ultimately spoke to the national product manager) came back > after discussing and said the same thing "We don't support that". I got a > slightly longer explanation of: > > -------------------------------------------- > > In a nutshell, when we design a product we do it to accommodate the most > typical customer cases. > Given that the design includes a single fiber path and thus the fiber path > and device that terminates on either end each are a single point of > failure, adding extra BGP sessions doesn’t seem to add value in the typical > failure scenarios. In order to achieve the simplest and most scalable > solution to address the market, we rely on narrowing the possible > combinations of parameters. > > -------------------------------------------- > > I explained to them that their interpretation prevents me from being able > to do concurrent maintenance on my side (single router reboot/upgrade, > etc). Never got anywhere with it though. > > I'm still interested in having this set up, but have given up on it ever > really coming to reality. Luckily ALL of my other providers were more than > happy to set up an extra session. > > If anyone from Comcast is listening, there is customer demand for this. > It's not about making it better for Comcast, it's about allowing customers > to have more flexibility. > > Mike Poublon > > /Senior Datacenter Network Engineer/ > > *Secant Technologies* > > 6395 Technology Ave. Suite A > > Kalamazoo, MI 49009 > > On 10/13/2016 1:48 PM, rar wrote: > >> After a many month wait, we were ready to turn up our BGP peering >> sessions on a new Comcast fiber connection. >> >> With our other providers (Level 3 and Verizon) we have edge routers that >> directly connect between the provider's on premise connection and our >> primary and a backup core routers. Each core router has a multihop BGP >> session with the provider's BGP router. The goal is to keep the single BGP >> router from being a single point of failure. >> >> Comcast said they could not support two separate BGP peering sessions on >> the same circuit. Does anyone have any counter examples? We used to have >> this setup with Comcast 5+ years ago, but now they say they can't support >> it. >> >> >> Bob Roswell >> brosw...@syssrc.com<mailto:brosw...@syssrc.com> >> 410-771-5544 ext 4336 >> >> Computer Museum Highlights<http://museum.syssrc.com/> >> >> >
