Joe Provo wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:08:01AM +0300, Paschal Masha wrote:
:) probably the longest prepend in the world.
A thought though, is it breaking any standard or best practice procedures?
That said, prepending pretty much anything more than your current view of the Internet's diameter in ASNs is useless in practice. Cascading effects are considered in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-as-path-prepending/ where a decent low number (5) is propsed.
Chers,
Joe
So is there a good way to signal along with a BGP route that the originator of the route wants you to know that this route has very high suckage factor and even if you normally prefer your peers customers whatever, you should perhaps think twice about that for this route, cause its really last resort. Because as-path is an overloaded multimeaning traffic influencing hammer that has imprecise and frequently undesirable results. And if that were not the case, than discussions of its relative size compared to internet diameter would be much more relevant. Joe