Answer is Yes and No.... sort of kind of. It should work .... The exact results depend on who your upstream is and from whom the traffic is coming from..
Doing such is a quick and dirty way, in my opinion not the best way to traffic engineer... There are other ways to influence traffic (in both direction) if you have two transit providers using communities (as long as they are available) and local pref. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 8:04:39 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BGP Route Control solutions > I had heard that if you advertise smaller IP blocks via one leg of the BGP > (one provider), that that will “influence” the traffic on those blocks to > come that direction. > Is that true? > From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Tuesday, August 11 , 2015 8:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BGP Route Control solutions > It's been coming "soon" longer than.... > From what I can tell, Border6 is the only one that does any sort of inbound > traffic manipulation. > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robbie Wright" < [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 11 , 2015 11:13:12 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BGP Route Control solutions > Correct, but the have an inbound version in the works as well. Supposed to be > Q2 of this year... > Robbie Wright > Siuslaw Broadband > 541-902-5101 > On Tue, Aug 11 , 2015 at 8:56 AM, Mike Hammett < [email protected] > wrote: > Noction is among those that only affect outbound. > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > From: "Robbie Wright" < [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 11 , 2015 10:35:59 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BGP Route Control solutions > http://www.noction.com/ > We trialed it and it was awesome. Under $2k a month IIRC. > Robbie Wright > Siuslaw Broadband > 541-902-5101 > On Tue, Aug 11 , 2015 at 8:31 AM, Paul Stewart < [email protected] > > wrote: > I’ve heard mixed things … something that personally I prefer to do by hand vs > having some automation take over … > From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Paul McCall > Sent: Tuesday, August 11 , 2015 11:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] BGP Route Control solutions > Is anyone using any automated functionality, software or appliance to > optimize the BGP connections in/out of your network? > With disparate pipe sizes, it is an interesting concept. Just reading up on > the concept now > Paul McCall, Pres. > PDMNet / Florida Broadband > 658 Old Dixie Highway > Vero Beach, FL 32962 > 772-564-6800 office > 772-473-0352 cell > www.pdmnet.com > [email protected]
