RE: BGP questions

["Pete Templin" <pete.templin () texlink com>]

If it's anything like what some of my downstreams have encountered, you'll want to explore the options to set 
communities on your outbound announcements to 6939 and/or 3356.  Most likely, as 3356 announces your routes to its 
peers, those peers are assigning a peer-level local preference.  Meanwhile, as 6939 announces your routes to their 
upstreams, those networks are using a default or "paid customer" local preference.  Since local preference comes before 
AS path length, you have to remotely twiddle local preference to get results.

HTH,

Pete Templin
Senior Staff Engineer
TexLink Communications
(210) 892-4183
pete.templin () texlink com


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:spork () inch com]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:02 PM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: OT: BGP questions


Hi,

Where's the best place these days to ask some "simple" BGP questions?  I
don't want to bother *-nsp@puck, but inet-access scares me.  Any
suggestions?  I'm good with the basics, but I've got a perplexing issue
(just look at AS8059, which is still sucking down most traffic via 6939
rather than 3356, even with all that silly prepending)...

Thanks,

Charles

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Charles Sprickman
spork () inch com