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Does AAPT charge for BGP use?

April 26, 2017aapt BGP charge

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Does AAPT charge for BGP use?

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BGP is a dynamic routing protocol and relies on exchanging routing updates. AAPT doesn’t directly charge for BGP but these routing updates will be included in your traffic counts and so you will be charged for them. For this reason it is better to ask AAPT to filter the routes that you wish to accept by selecting a suitable announcement rather than requesting all routes and then filtering on your router. Back to the Questions List AAPT’s Looking Glass AAPT has a “Looking Glass” web site at that allows you to access the routing table on a router connected to our core network. This router is a route reflector client of “mel-bdr1” and provides a limited view of our routing table (the router doesn’t have the CPU power or memory to take a full routing table). The web page allows you to query the router to obtain (BGP) route entries, dampened paths, flap statistics as well as allowing you to ping and traceroute to sites. As an example, if you request