Our provider is upgrading our connection (bandwidth and hardware), and they were going to connect to us with OSPF (the way they have always been doing it). I asked why not just hand us BGP. They told me that I can have it how ever I like.
The challenge that I have now, is that one of the senior engineers asked me what the benefits are, and suggested that I present the argument in our next meeting. My thought was mostly just having complete separation of routing protocols at the firewall (Palo Alto), and just redistribute at the edge into the LAN. No Internet on this connection, so no big BGP table.
Doing my homework on this now. Any input is greatly appreciated. Does it really matter? Is there any reason that we could leverage BGP to the provider, versus just extending our OSPF connection to them.
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