On Oct 15, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Mike Leber wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Bradley Urberg Carlson wrote:
I have a few customers' customers, who appear at a local IX. Due to
the MLPA-like nature of the IX, I hear their prefixes both at the IX
and via my own transit customers. I normally use localpref to prefer
customer advertisements over peers' advertisements.
There is a customer's customer who is advertising more-specifics
at the
IX (and using a different source AS, to boot)
Time to time you will see this.
You could also hear the more specifics from another peer that is
one of
their transit providers or you could hear them via one of your transit
providers.
I can think of a couple ways to prevent hearing these, but thought I
should ask for suggestions first.
You can do all kinds of things to other network's routes especially
when
those routes aren't from your customers and what you are doing doesn't
break connectivity (or solves a capacity problem and improves
connectivity). However, if you tweak routes of a paying customer
then you
will need to consider what your answer to your customer will be for
overriding their traffic engineering.
In this case it's his customer's customer... so no answer _necessary_
(as I've learnt from experience)
