Qwest uses 80 for peers; 100 for customers. As I'm sure Qwest had AT&T as a peer prior to today (and you tagged as a customer), it probably should have been 80 since the beginning. What was the local pref to AT&T before? Maybe they found a misconfiguration on a router. If your only objective is to make your Qwest peering "backup", send community 209:70 to Qwest and it'll drop your local pref on their network to 70. This will cause their 80 local pref peering with AT&T to be preferred. I also suggest you read: http://www.onesc.net/communities/as209/ and http://www.onesc.net/communities/as7018/ However, depending on if your network topology and situational circumstances permit it, it may not be a bad idea to take on-net customer routes for performance reasons. On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Graham Wooden <graham@g-rock.net> wrote:
Hi folks,
Anyone else noticed a localpref change on Qwest network in regards to AT&T prefixes? I noticed my AT&T assigned prefixes dropping to 80, causing my backup transit peering with Centurylink to take preference with Qwest originators ... All was working fine with my prepends .. But not anymore...
Any insight would be great. I haven¹t reached out to AT&T or Qwest yet. Curious if this is a bigger change than just me.
Thanks,
-graham