[c-nsp] Giving customers access to your gear.

[Sam Stickland]

Rick Martin wrote:
>  What is your routing policy when a customer owns their own router and
> connects it to your network? In our case we discourage customer owned
> routers but we do not totally ban it. Our policy is that we do not share
> any dynamic routing protocol with routers not under our direct/sole
> control. If a customer wants to install their own router we accommodate
> that but use static routing only. 
>
>  I am in a situation now where we will be sharing BGP (peer) with a
> particular customer, this is completely outside our normal policy but in
> this particular situation we pretty much have to accommodate this
> request. At least with BGP we can manage what we are advertising to said
> customer and what we will accept. 
>   
If you were providing MPLS L3 VPNs then you would be running BGP with 
most of your customers routers. Likewise if you were selling BGP transit 
(by definition). There's nothing wrong with running BGP with your 
customers - just make sure you have adequate prefix-filters and 
max-prefix-counts set.

Sam