everyone seems to have their saying ....from leting you wonder on what is the problem to making assumptions to witty technical explanations and useless question rephrased. For some reading this some are just non-technical individuals posting messages. All can be done ..we all know the BGP selection path algoritm and its extentions ...maybe a costing exercice to some that rather have interface X down for a while or reroute traffic through a different path Is the problem still occuring? Who's being affected? PS: going back to the drawing board is also an interesting approach if this is geting too complex ...:-) --- On Sat, 8/30/08, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
From: Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> Subject: Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 5:01 AM On Aug 29, 2008, at 22:41, "jim deleskie" <deleskie@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm afraid of the answer to that question
No you are not, since you already know the answer.
-- TTFN, patrick
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008, jim deleskie wrote:
Announcing a smaller bit of one of you block is fine, more then that most everyone I know does it or has done and is commonly accepted. Breaking up someone else' s block and making that announcement even if its to modify traffic between 2 peered networks is typically not looked as proper. Modify your taffic good. Do it to anyone other traffic = bad.
The question shouldn't really be "would
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote: people do this to others'
traffic"; the question should be "has it already happened and noone noticed."
Adrian