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Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements
From: Alan Barrett <apb () iafrica com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 13:22:02 +0200 (GMT+0200)
Is there any *customer-led* reason why one might not want to prefer customer routes over peer routes? (i.e. not "it saves me doing some backhaul as I can dump the traffic off to the customers other provider").
Yes. Suppose that I am "M", and I have two providers "A" and "B". The links M/A and M/B are expensive international links, much lower bandwidth than I would like, and prone to congestion. Further suppose that A is a customer of R, and B is a peer of R. For load balancing reasons, I would like R to send some of my traffic via A and some via B. Since I pay A and B for transit, and A pays R for transit, and A and B both agree to play along with my desire to load balance, it's reasonable for us to ask R to do this. From R's point of view, their customer A and their indirect customer M have asked them to treat peer routes (via B) and customer routes (via A) to destinations in M as being equivalent. --apb (Alan Barrett) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements, (continued)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements David Schwartz (Mar 14)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Vince Fuller (Mar 13)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements John G. Scudder (Mar 13)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Sean Donelan (Mar 13)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Vince Fuller (Mar 13)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Jessica Yu (Mar 14)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Jessica Yu (Mar 14)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Alex.Bligh (Mar 14)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Rusty Zickefoose (Mar 14)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Alex.Bligh (Mar 14)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Alan Barrett (Mar 15)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements John Hawkinson (Mar 15)
- Re: consistent policy != consistent announcements Jessica Yu (Mar 14)