> > Because, as Elmar alluded to, it makes a mess traffic engineering > wise. Like the one where I ended up having to announce both a covering > and disaggregates to overcome a provider of a provider localprefing my > routes on a grand tour of the continental United States when they had > a peeing route to me five miles down the road. > https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-January/224628.html
Ah yes, the 'everyone should do something different because I am inconvenienced' argument returns. On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM William Herrin via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM William Herrin via NANOG < > nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM Elmar K. Bins via NANOG > >> <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote: > >> > Yes, and it's very often a mess traffic-engineering wise... > >> > >> Now, if one of the networks is playing local pref games, which they > >> shouldn't be doing, then they may misroute packets the long way around > >> the planet. But that's their fault for playing local pref games. > > > > Bill--can you clarify why you feel setting localpref values for peers > differently from customers > > is something ISPs "shouldn't be doing?" > > Hi Matt, > > Because, as Elmar alluded to, it makes a mess traffic engineering > wise. Like the one where I ended up having to announce both a covering > and disaggregates to overcome a provider of a provider localprefing my > routes on a grand tour of the continental United States when they had > a peeing route to me five miles down the road. > https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-January/224628.html > > > Is it your assertion that as an ISP, as a provider of services to my > customers, I should leave > > it up to tie-breaking heuristics further and further down the BGP > decision tree as to whether > > I can earn money by carrying traffic or not? > > Not all hamburger joints are in the business of selling quality beef. Is > yours? > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/ > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/MKGB2PKDIEZMXD6VT4WNWMZ5BOV7P2OF/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/UO2DCPNOACFKZAD7IK4GPJKTH5OVEBUS/
