Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

["jim deleskie" <deleskie () gmail com>]

The biggest issue with using a heavy hammer to effect traffic is that
you don't always know why the other side is routing the way they are.
Could be simple cost (peer vs transit) or a larger issue like
congestion.  Either way think before you route.

I'm thinking Pandora's box hasn't just been opened but blown apart.....


-jim

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote:
> * jim deleskie:
>
> > Announcing a smaller bit of one of you block is fine, more then that
> > most everyone I know does it or has done and is commonly accepted.
> > Breaking up someone else' s block and making that announcement even if
> > its to modify traffic between 2 peered networks is typically not
> > looked as proper.  Modify your taffic good. Do it to anyone other
> > traffic = bad.
>
> No, the idea would be to do this to your own prefixes/traffic.
>
>
>           +------/AS 2/-----/AS 3/--------+
>           |                               |
>        /AS 1/                          /AS 4/
>           |                               |
>           +----------/AS 5/---------------+
>
> I'm AS 1, and the link to AS 2 has a bad metric from my POV.  AS 4 uses
> local preference (or something else I can't override by prepending my
> own AS) to route traffic to me through AS 3 and AS 2.  Now I prepend
> AS 4 to my announcement to AS 2, and voilà, the traffic flows through
> AS 5, as desired.
>
> No prefix hijacking has occurred (I would have received the traffic
> anyway, just over a different path), it's just traffic engineering.
> (But probably a variant that is generally frowned upon.)