Re: Long AS Path

2017-06-23 Thread Ryan L
I didn't see anyone answer (sorry if I missed it and this is redundant) ... In the path selection algorithm, local preference is processed before AS-PATH. Within your provider's AS, your prefixes could be a default localpref of 100, and learned prefixes from their peers 85, for example. In this

Re: BFD on back-to-back connected BGP-speakers

2016-11-29 Thread Ryan L
Hugo, I think those are all valid potential reasons to use BFD. I use it for some of the same reasons even on direct connect peers. Only time I ever recall actively avoiding it if I had the capability was if I had NSF/SSO, since they didn't used to (still don't?) play very well together. On Tue,

Re: nested prefixes in Internet

2016-11-21 Thread Ryan L
Hopefully they would be flexible with this sort of policy under certain circumstances. I could see this as being somewhat problematic for mitigation providers, since longer mask preemption is a commonly used method to take on traffic for scrubbing, as well as customers potentially using a more