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Integra Telecom BGP Request Information

In order to establish a BGP session with Integra Telecom, (you) the customer must meet the following requirements:

  1. The customer must have a T1 or higher bandwidth circuit.
  2. The customer must be multihomed (with Integra or any other service provider)
  3. If multi-homing to more than one provider, the customer must obtain an Autonomous System Number, available at http://www.arin.net. If multi-homing only to Integra, Integra will provide a private AS number.
  4. The customer's router must be capable of running BGP4.
  5. Customers must specify what routes they want to receive from Integra Telecom. There are four choices:
    1. Full Internet routes
    2. Integra Telecom and customer routes
    3. Integra Telecom and customer routes, plus default route
    4. Default route only
  6. If the customer wishes to receive full BGP routes from Integra Telecom, the customer's router must be configured with enough memory to contain these additional routes and associated overhead. Integra Telecom recommends a minimum of 256M of memory for full route tables, but other values may be suitable for the customer's application.
  7. Integra Telecom will provide only basic assistance with setting up and maintaining the peering session. All internal connections and peering with other parties are strictly the customer's responsibility.
  8. If the customer wishes to enable BGP with a new circuit, the request should be submitted prior to the installation date to avoid unnecessary delay. The customer must give the Integra Telecom account coordinator 5 business days notice of intent to purchase the BGP service.
  9. At this time, the customer should be prepared to submit to Integra Telecom the following information.
    • The customer's ASN
    • In the case where BGP is being configured over an existing connection, the IP address of the customer's router.
    • Any downstream ASN's the customer wishes to route.
    • Any netblocks the customer wishes to route.
  10. Customers must include outbound route filtering as part of their configuration, to help prevent improper route announcements.
  11. Should the customer want to request changes to Integra's inbound BGP route filters, please email bgp@integra.net including details such as the prefixes, downstream ASNs, connected IP address &/or Integra circuit ID.

Integra Telecom reserves the right to shut down BGP service should the following occur:

Requesting a PRIVATE ASN:

Supported BGP Customer Community Info:

Communities

Integra allows customers to manipulate their network announcements by sending BGP communities. Customers can send communities to adjust Integra local preference, and modify export behavior. Customers can use various combinations of these communities to control their inbound traffic flows.

Integra strips any unrecognized BGP communities received from the customer. Integra does not propagate any BGP communities to non-customers, originated by Integra or otherwise.

Local Preference Manipulation

Integras Backbone Local Preference Policy uses the following values:

65, 75, 80, 85Integra Peers
100Integra BGP Customers (default)
100Integra Internal and static routed customers

Customers may send the following communities to modify BGP local preference given to networks announced to Integra:

Community Integra Local PreferenceEffect on Integra Route Preference
7385:6060Last Resort -- Only use this route when alternate providers no longer have this route.
7385:7070Backup #2 -- Allows the customer to specify that the circuit on which ths route is learned is to be a backup to another circuit with Integra (since default is set to 100). Also causes the same route to be preferred if learned from and Integra Bilateral peer over the route marked with this community.
7385:9090Backup #1 -- Allows the customer to specify that the circuit on which this route is learned is to be a backup to another circuit with Integra
7385:110110Preferred -- This route is preferred over all others

Export Manipulation:

Customers may send the following communities to modify Integra default export behavior, which is to export all accepted routes (assuming they have passed Integra filters) to all BGP peers including customers:

CommunityExport Behavior
7385:640Do not export to any BGP peers or customers (similar to well known community 'no-export')
7385:666Do not export to any BGP peers, but do export to Integra BGP customers


If you agree with the terms above, complete the BGP Request Form to establish a BGP session with Integra Telecom.

BGP Request Form »