anycasting behind different ASNs?

Steve Gibbard scg at gibbard.org
Wed Dec 6 22:40:07 UTC 2006


On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Deepak Jain wrote:

>
>> An easy way around this is to be consistent about your transit and peering 
>> arrangements across locations.  If your anycast network has transit from a 
>> network in one location, get transit from them in your other locations, and 
>> let hot potato routing do its thing.  For cases where this isn't practical, 
>> or where you want more control over who is sending traffic to a node, 
>> declare the node to be a "peering only" node and make sure your peers 
>> aren't leaking the anycast routes to their out of region upstreams.
>> 
>
> Or prepend (gasp!) like the Dickens for your "peering only" node to have 
> transit, but be the route chosen after transit/connectivity to your 
> "transit/peering ok" node fails.

Doesn't work.  Local preference gets considered before AS path.

-Steve



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