Re: Networks ignoring prepends?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net> wrote:
> BGP, while a distance vector protocol, famously does not take
> latency into account when making routing decisions.

Unless overridden, BGP takes -distance- into account where distance =
AS path length.

Centurylink has overridden that with a localpref so that it DOES NOT
take distance into account. Which rather defeats the function of a
distance vector protocol.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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