15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
2:09 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com> wrote:
Had in interesting conversation with a transit AS on behalf of a customer where I found out they are using communities to raise the local preference
That sounds like a disreputable practice. While not quite as obvious, some large transit ASes, like Level3, reset the origin to I (best) sometime between when they learn it and when they announce it to their customers and peers. This similarly causes them to suck in a bit more traffic than they might otherwise. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts