long as path games - additional question

Wed Feb 2 23:18:08 UTC 2005

	Well there are many reasons but the most common in my opinion is
that usually people do this to influence route preference; by
pre-pending your own AS path several times you effectively make the
route less desirable to use.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Gniewomir Krol
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:18 AM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: long as path games - additional question

hello there,

perhaps it's trivial question ( if so, please give mi direction to some
source of information); suppose i've received as-path which contains
about 8 as-numbers, four of which are the same; what exactly this could
mean?

thanks in advance, 

best regards, gk 