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Re: Networks ignoring prepends?
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:49:27 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, William Herrin wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:24 AM Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:Standard practice is to localpref your customers up, which makes prepends irrelevant. Why would anyone expect different behavior?It gives me, your paying customer, less control over my routing through your network than if I wasn't your paying customer. That seems... backwards.
Not at all. Think like a service provider."I've got packets to deliver. I've got 3 different classes of paths I can use. One of them, I get paid to use. One is cost neutral. The last one, I pay to use."
Which path would you pick (assuming you're trying to maximize revenue from your network)?
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- Re: Networks ignoring prepends? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 22)
- Re: Networks ignoring prepends? Mel Beckman (Jan 22)
- Re: Networks ignoring prepends? James Jun (Jan 22)
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