Hi all. This is especially to members that take part in the BGP routing on the Internet, and specifically accept the full routing table from your upstream carriers.
Africa Online Uganda is participating in the global routing table, by announcing its own prefixes to the Internet. However, we are announcing longer prefixes for traffic engineering reasons, which means for members that receive a full BGP feed, it's possible your router's will prefer the path to our network over the Internet, even after you receive our prefixes from the exchange. This is because our prefixes at the exchange are aggregated, and thus, shorter than the ones advertised on the Internet. To solve this, you may use the LOCAL_PREF or MED attributes, or even Cisco Weights, to prefer our prefixes that you learn over the exchange. If you should have any questions, please feel free to mail me on/off list. Thanks. Regards, Mark Tinka - CCNP Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
