If it's anything like what some of my downstreams have encountered, you'll want to explore the options to set communities on your outbound announcements to 6939 and/or 3356. Most likely, as 3356 announces your routes to its peers, those peers are assigning a peer-level local preference. Meanwhile, as 6939 announces your routes to their upstreams, those networks are using a default or "paid customer" local preference. Since local preference comes before AS path length, you have to remotely twiddle local preference to get results. HTH, Pete Templin Senior Staff Engineer TexLink Communications (210) 892-4183 pete.templin@texlink.com -----Original Message----- From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:spork@inch.com] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:02 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: OT: BGP questions Hi, Where's the best place these days to ask some "simple" BGP questions? I don't want to bother *-nsp@puck, but inet-access scares me. Any suggestions? I'm good with the basics, but I've got a perplexing issue (just look at AS8059, which is still sucking down most traffic via 6939 rather than 3356, even with all that silly prepending)... Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman spork@inch.com