Re: Networks ignoring prepends?

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* bill () herrin us (William Herrin) [Mon 22 Jan 2024, 15:05 CET]:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:24 AM Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
> > Standard practice is to localpref your customers up, which makes 
> > prepends irrelevant. Why would anyone expect different behavior?
>
> It gives me, your paying customer, less control over my routing 
> through your network than if I wasn't your paying customer. That 
> seems... backwards.

Most sellers of IP transit offer a "treat as peer" BGP community which 
will flatten your localpref to that of peers rather than a customer.


        -- Niels.