BGP contact at McLeod?

[neal rauhauser <neal () lists rauhauser net>]

  I've got a customer terminating a McLead and a Sprint DS3 on a single 
7507. I'm preparing to break this up into two border routers and I'm a 
little puzzled by the choice to force router ID to be the IP address of 
the customer's side of the McLeod DS3. The machine didn't have a 
loopback when I found it and the configuration shows a lot of BGP book 
learning and what looks like not much hands on. Is this a requirement 
for the McLeod side to behave properly? I think not but I'd like to hear 
it from @mcleod.net - this customer is very finicky and I don't want any 
'excitement' during the transition.


router bgp 8675309
 no synchronization
 bgp router-id x.y.z.10
 neighbor x.y.z.9 remote-as 7228


interface ATM6/1/0.1 point-to-point
 description Internet PVC to McLeod
 ip address x.y.z.10 255.255.255.252


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