On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:24:21PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
Honestly, I fail to see this as a big problem. If they don't want to announce the prefix to us, why would they want to source traffic from that prefix to us?
I could delve in some exceptionally ugly examples of peering politics but refrain to do that. Let's just say that it's one way to make things "look wrong" to The Uninitiated and easy to point complainers to the other party.
The inbound traffic engineering is the more tricky business, not the outbound.
Well, but outbound TE based on _source_ needs policy routing. With some vendor's gear this is not a too big problem, but with some other vendor's gear this comes at a much higher price.
If they want to keep the link usage low, they could just send it with no-export or no-advertise, or suitably prepended.
Prepend doesn't work as you as upstream normally localpref your customers above all others (you have to by default, otherwise there are setups in which $customer might be without _any_ upstream although the link to you is still fine). no-export doesn't work as $customer doesn't want ANY traffic from your other customers to him directly for certain prefixes. no-advertise is ugly++. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0