Re: AS701 peer local-pref?

[Me <smentzer () mentzer org>]

All the responses I have gotten indicate that UUnet does indeed set
local-pref on both customers and peers to 100 (or leave default in this
case).  Thanks for all the responses...


-- 
-sean
Spoon!

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:01:39 -0500
> From: Christopher A. Woodfield <rekoil () semihuman com>
> To: German Martinez <gmartine () nic gip net>
> Cc: Me <smentzer () mentzer org>, nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: AS701 peer local-pref?
>
> I think you misunderstood the question - what you have detailed here is a
> list of customer communities that UUNet accepts, what Sean is trying to
> find out is what internal localpref UUNet sets by default - do they
> automatically give prefixes from customers a higher localpref than
> prefixes heard from peers? I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking that
> they do, which makes sense - otherwise it's possible to send traffic to a
> peer when there could be a valid path for the traffic via a customer.
>
> -Chris
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:14:26PM -0500, German Martinez wrote:
> > SHORT NAME              COMMUNITY       WHAT IT DOES
> > Local Pref = 80         701:80          set localpref 80
> > Local Pref = 120        701:120         set localpref 120
> > AS Path prepend 1       701:1           prepend 1x: 701 [cust-AS]
> > AS Path prepend 2       701:2           prepend 2x: 701 701 [cust-AS]
> > AS Path prepend 3       701:3           prepend 3x: 701 701 701 [cust-AS]
> > Cust but not peers      701:20          propagate to custs, not peers
> > keep cust routes in North America       701:30  send to custs & peers, but
> > not 702, 703...
> > keep AS7046 in AS701    no-export       don't propagate beyond AS701
> > peers                   701:666         don't propagate beyond this AS
> > peers                   701:1030        don't propagate beyond this AS
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Me wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know what local-pref AS701 sets for their customers and their
> > > peers?  I called their NOC, and was told that is was set to 100 for both,
> > > though I know most providers set local-pref on peers lower than customers.
> > > I just want to get confirmation on what i was told by their NOC.
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -sean
> > > Spoon!