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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Policy Routing
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Travis Pugh wrote: > > I would be very upset if I were "Company X" and I found out that you were > > policy-routing my traffic to the "cheap" connection vs the best > > connection. > > I had the exact same thing proposed to me at one point or another in a > different life, and refused outright. If the salespeople in question are > like most, they've already hyped the quality of whatever transit circuits > the SP in question has ... even if it hasn't been specifically mentioned, > piping a given customer's traffic out your cheapest transit point is > something I'd consider ethically questionable. I'm sure the customer won't > appreciate it either. I've had the same sort of thing proposed. If the customer knows in advance that you're going to send all their traffic through your cheapest peer/transit path available, what's the problem? They get what they pay for...and for this sort of service, they'd obviously be paying noticably less than best path routed customers. I haven't actually set one of these up yet, but I don't see why they'd need to be directly on the router to peer-A...unless you're figuring the policy routing overhead will be substantially lower if you're applying on their interface rather than a generic interface (with additional traffic) on the peer-A connected router. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[email protected]*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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