Networks ignoring prepends?
William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
Tue Jan 23 22:28:07 UTC 2024
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM Niels Bakker <niels=nanog at bakker.net> wrote:
> BGP, while a distance vector protocol, famously does not take
> latency into account when making routing decisions.
Unless overridden, BGP takes -distance- into account where distance =
AS path length.
Centurylink has overridden that with a localpref so that it DOES NOT
take distance into account. Which rather defeats the function of a
distance vector protocol.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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