Re: Sprint/Verizon BGP

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Robert D. Scott<robert () ufl edu> wrote:
> They will almost always prefer their IBGP to any learned routes.  Why send
> traffic to a transit network and skew their I/O peering numbers when you can
> handle it yourself. I doubt you will change their mind.

http://onesc.net/communities/as1239/

uhm, prepend and/or localpref fiddling...

-chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Brookhouse [mailto:ebroo () setuidzero org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:36 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Sprint/Verizon BGP
>
> Hi all,
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> Any Sprint BGP admins on this list can offer any thoughts on why Sprint
> connected networks are preferring my Sprint connection when they should be
> preferring my Verizon?
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> I (Healthy Directions) am AS16387, two blocks 63.73.158.0/24 and
> 63.78.31.0/24, being announced by sprint and Verizon, preferred to
> Verizon(DS3) over Sprint 3MB.
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> Verizon BGP admins think everything is ok, have not heard back from BGP4 at
> sprint.
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> Any thoughts appreciated, off-list contact welcome.
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> Edward
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> ebroo () healthydirections com