[c-nsp] BGP sessions won't establish.

[Jay Hennigan]

Roy wrote:

> Unfortunately, the large ISP is one of the low cost leaders so while the 
> people that answer the phones are responsive, they refer it off to the 
> "experts" who haven't done much.   I set up a test router and gave them 
> the passwords and their response was "we aren't allowed to configure 
> your router".
> I want to thank the subscribers to the list for their suggestions and 
> help.   I will send along updates and the final resolution for the 
> edification of all.

Can you do an extended ping sourced from your loopback to the ISP 
neighbor's loopback?  By what means do the loopbacks have a route to 
each other?

Do you have a static host route to their loopback pointed to their end 
of the link between you, and do they have a similar one to your loopback?

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