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Re: Fundamental questions of backbone design


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:55:43 -0400

On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:43:49 -0700, Matthew Petach said:

Think about it; if network A prepends 10x to network B, and not at all to
network C; but network B is a free peer of mine, and network C is a transit
network I pay money to; following the typical convention of "routes learned
from network B get localpref'd to 5000, routes learned from transit are
localpref'd at 1000", you'd end up pushing the traffic along the 10x prepended
pathway.

Thanks.  Due to the way our private peering works, the only routes we learn
from our "network B"'s are ones that wouldn't prepend because they want to talk
to us over the peer.  So all our prepends show up via our C's.  And I was
insuffiently caffienated to consider the case that we'd see prepends on our B
side...

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