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RE: HE.net and BGP Communities
From: Brian Turnbow via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:19:34 +0000
Hi,
I do understand the reasoning behind preferring customer routes. However in the case where a customer of a customer also connects to you directly via peering doesn't it make sense to prefer the direct connection? or at >least not prefer the customer learned routes.
Business not technical. Fill up the bandwidth and they will buy more!!
In our situation, we were buying transit, heavily prepended, from a provider on a tiny circuit. The purpose of the transit was related to another service we were acquiring from that provider and wasn't about the transit, but >the transit was needed for the service to work reliably. Unfortunately this provider was also a HE customer and so we now had all of the HE traffic coming down this tiny link, since all of our other transit providers and >ourselves only peered with HE.
I don't remember why, but we couldn't have the transit provider not announce our routes toward HE, so we ended up doing the announce more specifics everywhere else thing. Which I hate doing on so many levels.
Thus the desire for a community to tell HE that although they learned this route from a customer, it is not a customer route.
You can use communities to set the local preference with HE. This should do the trick 6730:0008 set local pref to 64 (lowest they have afaik) Provided that your provider accepts it and propagates it. Or you can ask them to set it for you. Brian
Current thread:
- HE.net and BGP Communities Rubens Kuhl (Jul 24)
- RE: HE.net and BGP Communities Ryan Hamel (Jul 24)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Siyuan Miao (Jul 24)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Forrest Christian (List Account) (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Jared Mauch (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Forrest Christian (List Account) (Jul 25)
- RE: HE.net and BGP Communities Brian Turnbow via NANOG (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Lukas Tribus (Jul 25)
- RE: HE.net and BGP Communities Brian Turnbow via NANOG (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Siyuan Miao (Jul 24)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Lukas Tribus (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Randy Bush (Jul 25)
- RE: HE.net and BGP Communities Tony Wicks (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Forrest Christian (List Account) (Jul 25)
- RE: HE.net and BGP Communities Ryan Hamel (Jul 24)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Rafael Possamai (Jul 25)
- Re: HE.net and BGP Communities Heasley (Jul 25)