Re: local_preference for transit traffic?

[Mark Tinka <mtinka () globaltransit net>]

On Friday, December 16, 2011 05:02:33 AM Joe Malcolm wrote:

> Once upon a time, UUNET did the opposite by setting
> origin to unknown for peer routes, in an attempt to
> prefer customer routes over peer routes. We moved to
> local preference shortly thereafter as it became clear
> this was "changing" the routes in some meaningful way;
> if a customer was multihomed to us and another provider,
> this might affect path selection.

This raises an interesting question we've dealt with many a 
time in our network - outside of situations mandated by 
governments or some such, are ISP's happy to peer with their 
customers (where "peer" = settlement-free exchanging of 
routes/traffic across public interconnects while "customers" 
= servicing a commercial IP Transit contract)?

Mark.

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