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Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!
- Subject: Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!
- From: sunyucong at gmail.com (Yucong Sun)
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:40:35 +0000
- References: <CAJygYd33f4oKY-ph7C6rf1W9Dj0=iouDJfeo9qqdzh_mgeOexA@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
if that is the intent, they should charge per prefix. Not per /24 eqiv.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 00:20 Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:
> * Yucong Sun
>
> > My recent inquiry to some network provider reveals that they are
> > charging fee for per /24 announced. Obvious that would means they get
> > to charge a lot with little to none efforts on their side.
> >
> > In a world we are charging total bytes transferred instead of bps on
> > uplinks, i can't say I'm surprised that much. But does anyone else had
> > same experience? Did you pay? Is this the new status quo now?
>
> Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing
> slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
>
> Tore
>