ISP Policies

Fri Sep 10 06:06:58 UTC 2004

On a related note : Do ISPs ever tweak around with Local Prefs and weights so as to select BGP paths with greater AS PATH length?

Would it ever make sense for a provider to chose a longer AS PATH length BGP route against a shorter AS PATH length route?

Rohit

MTech Comp Sc.
Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: ISP Policies

 At 11:04 AM +0530 9/9/04, Tulip Rasputin wrote:
Hi Chris,

Or, you just don't want to send traffic through Bill Manning's ASN because
you dislike his hawiian T-Shirt Policy? There are probably a few hundred
reasosn why you'd avoid an ASN... In general though I'd think that like
Michel said: "It's a pain and its doing something that bgp should do for
you without lots of messing about"

That's why i explicitly asked for some "social/political/etc." 
reasons where an ISP may not want his traffic to traverse some 
particular AS number(s). Something which is beyond BGP to determine 
as of now ! :-)
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