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Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

  • From: Zaid Ali
  • Date: Wed Jul 21 16:02:27 2010

I already have a v6 BGP tunnel with Hurricane Electric and works like a
charm :) It is other vendors I am concerned about.

Zaid


On 7/21/10 12:38 PM, "Mike Leber" <mleber@he.net> wrote:

> 
> You can get a free IPv6 BGP tunnel from Hurricane Electric at
> http://tunnelbroker.net
> 
> We have tunnel servers spread through out the world, so typically the
> nearest server has reasonably low latency from your location.
> 
> Of course our main business is selling wholesale native IPv6 and IPv4
> transit, however you don't have to be a paying customer to use our free
> service.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> On 7/21/10 12:08 PM, Zaid Ali wrote:
>> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6
>> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same
>> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in
>> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous
>> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a
>> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I
>> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a
>> similar experience?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Zaid
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 







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