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[members-discuss] An ISP offers to announce our prefix. Is that normal?
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Bernd Naumann
bena at spreadshirt.net
Tue Nov 12 12:16:53 CET 2019
Hi, I have a question about the validly of an option provided by our ISP. Back story: We will move one of your office uplinks in germany next year to an other provider. They offered us various options how it could be implemented. In my personal option one option sounds technical crazier then the other, even that it is "enterprise". The management involved raised concern when the ISP noticed that if we wanna use "just BGP" we will loose any SLA for L3 services. With no doubt I see managements point but now it comes: Then the ISP offered us to announce _our_ prefix for us, from their ASN, and here I lost trust, and stopped the planning for now to get either confirmation or an other red flag. - Is this even "allowed" or recommend by RIPE policies or BCPs? - Wouldn't that be at least looks like a/an BGP hijacking (attempt)? Because I have not seen / read about that implementation anywhere... - Just in case this is ok-ish, how would I setup the ROA with RPKI so that it would be come valid? An other but related question: Regarding the "No SLA" thing: Could someone point me on how other ISPs handle this or what would be "industrial standard". I highly doubt the reasoning, that just because the customer is using his own gear that the ISP will get way with any disturbance of their service... Naive me thought that it would be like in your data center installations: You get transit v4 and v6 networks from the provider, configure BGP and are done. Yes this does not prevent a customer to mis-configure things but in this case we would just get a default route and announcing one or more prefixes. I hardly see any pitfalls here. Thanks in advise and for your time, Best, Bernd
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