I'm seeing some routing weirdness from PlusNet xDSL connections to one of
our subnets, and wondered if there was any members from PlusNet and Virgin
on list who could take a look.

We have a subnet 195.2.224.0/24 on AS44052 which is dual homed to EntaNet
and IXReach.

>From a PlusNet xDSL connection, the routing to our router looks quite
sensible when hitting the carrier side IP addresses that are assigned to it:

EntaNet assigned address:

alan-mbp:~ alanramsay$ traceroute -I 188.39.202.154
traceroute to 188.39.202.154 (188.39.202.154), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  nat (172.16.10.1)  5.767 ms  3.174 ms  1.931 ms
 2  410.xe-2-2-0.central10.pcn-bng02.plus.net (84.93.253.72)  17.874
ms  17.056 ms  14.640 ms
 3  411.be6.pcn-ir02.plus.net (84.93.253.79)  17.152 ms  14.379 ms  17.687 ms
 4  195.99.125.144 (195.99.125.144)  14.960 ms  17.165 ms  14.512 ms
 5  peer1-et-10-3-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (62.172.103.17)  18.485 ms
 16.459 ms  14.942 ms
 6  * * *
 7  te0-2-0-3.interxion3.core.enta.net (188.39.127.172)  18.420 ms
18.229 ms  17.572 ms
 8  te0-0-2-0.miltonkeynes.core.enta.net (188.39.127.209)  19.556 ms
18.382 ms  20.486 ms
 9  te0-0-0-1.birmingham-te.core.enta.net (188.39.127.212)  22.215 ms
30.097 ms  21.483 ms
10  te0-0-0-2.wolv-te.core.enta.net (188.39.127.217)  22.330 ms
25.702 ms  21.107 ms
11  188-39-202-154.static.enta.net (188.39.202.154)  20.173 ms  21.385
ms  20.329 ms
alan-mbp:~ alanramsay$

IXReach assigned address:

alan-mbp:~ alanramsay$ traceroute -I 31.217.134.34
traceroute to 31.217.134.34 (31.217.134.34), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  nat (172.16.10.1)  5.455 ms  2.448 ms  2.362 ms
 2  410.xe-2-2-0.central10.pcn-bng02.plus.net (84.93.253.72)  16.839
ms  14.814 ms  14.290 ms
 3  411.be6.pcn-ir01.plus.net (84.93.253.75)  15.082 ms  15.229 ms  15.825 ms
 4  195.99.125.136 (195.99.125.136)  15.509 ms  15.857 ms  16.325 ms
 5  62.172.103.49 (62.172.103.49)  41.430 ms  17.144 ms  15.461 ms
 6  * * *
 7  31.217.134.34 (31.217.134.34)  24.338 ms  21.765 ms  21.651 ms
alan-mbp:~ alanramsay$


Now if we try to do a traceroute to the router directly within the
advertised subnet, PlusNet seems to favour the EntaNet connection, but
sends traffic to it via Virgin Media.

alan-mbp:~ alanramsay$ traceroute -I 195.2.224.253
traceroute to 195.2.224.253 (195.2.224.253), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  nat (172.16.10.1)  4.343 ms  2.126 ms  5.047 ms
 2  410.xe-2-2-0.central10.pcn-bng02.plus.net (84.93.253.72)  17.572
ms  16.744 ms  13.716 ms
 3  411.be6.pcn-ir02.plus.net (84.93.253.79)  19.078 ms  18.111 ms  15.559 ms
 4  195.99.125.140 (195.99.125.140)  15.161 ms  15.049 ms  15.472 ms
 5  peer2-et-1-1-0.redbus.ukcore.bt.net (62.172.103.45)  15.296 ms
15.722 ms  17.498 ms
 6  194.74.65.22 (194.74.65.22)  22.802 ms  27.988 ms  23.007 ms
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * **10  tcl5-ic-5-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net
<http://tcl5-ic-5-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net> (62.254.84.66)
28.122 ms  23.156 ms  24.506 ms
*11  * * *
12  te0-2-0-3.interxion3.core.enta.net (188.39.127.172)  23.327 ms
20.859 ms  21.733 ms
13  te0-0-2-0.miltonkeynes.core.enta.net (188.39.127.209)  22.365 ms
23.298 ms  25.178 ms
14  te0-0-0-1.birmingham-te.core.enta.net (188.39.127.212)  26.434 ms
27.137 ms  29.711 ms
15  te0-0-0-2.wolv-te.core.enta.net (188.39.127.217)  31.469 ms
31.309 ms  28.197 ms
16  ip195-2-224-253.presscomputers.net (195.2.224.253)  28.177 ms
25.894 ms  27.156 ms
alan-mbp:~ alanramsay$


What would cause the traffic to go via Virgin, rather than direct - we can
see when they hit the external PlusNet IP of the router it routes without
going via Virgin.

Any advice on how to resolve this is much appreciated.

Thanks

Alan

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