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Re: ISP Policies

  • From: Rohit Gupta
  • Date: Fri Sep 10 02:09:12 2004
On a related note : Do ISPs ever tweak around with Local Prefs and weights so as to select BGP paths with greater AS PATH length? Would it ever make sense for a provider to chose a longer AS PATH length BGP route against a shorter AS PATH length route? Rohit MTech Comp Sc. Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" To: Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:27 PM Subject: Re: ISP Policies > > At 11:04 AM +0530 9/9/04, Tulip Rasputin wrote: >>Hi Chris, >> >>>Or, you just don't want to send traffic through Bill Manning's ASN because >>>you dislike his hawiian T-Shirt Policy? There are probably a few hundred >>>reasosn why you'd avoid an ASN... In general though I'd think that like >>>Michel said: "It's a pain and its doing something that bgp should do for >>>you without lots of messing about" >> >>That's why i explicitly asked for some "social/political/etc." >>reasons where an ISP may not want his traffic to traverse some >>particular AS number(s). Something which is beyond BGP to determine >>as of now ! :-)
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