On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Travis Pugh wrote:
I would be very upset if I were "Company X" and I found out that you were policy-routing my traffic to the "cheap" connection vs the best connection.
I had the exact same thing proposed to me at one point or another in a different life, and refused outright. If the salespeople in question are like most, they've already hyped the quality of whatever transit circuits the SP in question has ... even if it hasn't been specifically mentioned, piping a given customer's traffic out your cheapest transit point is something I'd consider ethically questionable. I'm sure the customer won't appreciate it either.
I've had the same sort of thing proposed. If the customer knows in advance that you're going to send all their traffic through your cheapest peer/transit path available, what's the problem? They get what they pay for...and for this sort of service, they'd obviously be paying noticably less than best path routed customers. I haven't actually set one of these up yet, but I don't see why they'd need to be directly on the router to peer-A...unless you're figuring the policy routing overhead will be substantially lower if you're applying on their interface rather than a generic interface (with additional traffic) on the peer-A connected router. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________