Quick question about inbound route-selection

Joe Provo nanog-post at rsuc.gweep.net
Thu Jul 16 13:48:32 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:45:24AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Keep in mind I am basing this 'idea' off of fixed orbit's data
> which can sometimes be a bit out of date, etc.

Understatement.

[snip]
> I realize that we can use communities, and prepends to control
> the inbound flow, I am just speaking from a purely natural standpoint.

Since your inbound is someone else's outbound, presuming any kind 
of "natural flow" without accounting for the remote end's sending 
policies is unreasonable.

Cheers,

Joe

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