Well there are many reasons but the most common in my opinion is
that usually people do this to influence route preference; by
pre-pending your own AS path several times you effectively make the
route less desirable to use.Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gniewomir Krol Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: long as path games - additional question hello there, perhaps it's trivial question ( if so, please give mi direction to some source of information); suppose i've received as-path which contains about 8 as-numbers, four of which are the same; what exactly this could mean? thanks in advance, best regards, gk
