local_preference for transit traffic?
Mark Tinka
mtinka at globaltransit.net
Sat Dec 17 08:14:59 UTC 2011
On Friday, December 16, 2011 05:02:33 AM Joe Malcolm wrote:
> Once upon a time, UUNET did the opposite by setting
> origin to unknown for peer routes, in an attempt to
> prefer customer routes over peer routes. We moved to
> local preference shortly thereafter as it became clear
> this was "changing" the routes in some meaningful way;
> if a customer was multihomed to us and another provider,
> this might affect path selection.
This raises an interesting question we've dealt with many a
time in our network - outside of situations mandated by
governments or some such, are ISP's happy to peer with their
customers (where "peer" = settlement-free exchanging of
routes/traffic across public interconnects while "customers"
= servicing a commercial IP Transit contract)?
Mark.
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