Re: Is it normal for your provider to withhold BGP peering info until the night of the cut?

[Kraig Beahn <kraig () enguity com>]

"This carrier said that they don't provide this until the night of the
cut." / "Is this a common SOP nowadays?" - Not in our experience.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:26 PM, c b <bz_siege_01 () hotmail com> wrote:

> We have 4 full-peering providers between two data centers. Our accounting
> people did some shopping and found that there was a competitor who came in
> substantially lower this year and leadership decided to swap our most
> expensive circuit to the new carrier.
> (I don't know what etiquette is, so I won't name the carrier... but it's a
> well-known name)
> Anyways, we were preparing for the circuit cutover and asked for the BGP
> peering info up front like we normally do. This carrier said that they
> don't provide this until the night of the cut. Now, we've done this 5 or 6
> times over the years with all of our other carriers and this is the first
> one to ever do this. We even escalated to our account manager and they
> still won't provide it.
> I know it's not a huge deal, but life is so much easier when you can
> prestage your cut and rollback commands. In fact, our internal Change
> Management process mandates peer review all proposed config changes and now
> we have to explain why some lines say TBD!
> Is this a common SOP nowadays? Anyone care to explain why they wouldn't
> just provide it ahead of time?
> Thanks in advance.
> CWB