On a related note : Do ISPs ever tweak around with Local Prefs and weights so as to select BGP paths with greater AS PATH length?
Would it ever make sense for a provider to chose a longer AS PATH length BGP route against a shorter AS PATH length route?
Rohit
MTech Comp Sc.
Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: ISP Policies
>
> At 11:04 AM +0530 9/9/04, Tulip Rasputin wrote:
>>Hi Chris,
>>
>>>Or, you just don't want to send traffic through Bill Manning's ASN because
>>>you dislike his hawiian T-Shirt Policy? There are probably a few hundred
>>>reasosn why you'd avoid an ASN... In general though I'd think that like
>>>Michel said: "It's a pain and its doing something that bgp should do for
>>>you without lots of messing about"
>>
>>That's why i explicitly asked for some "social/political/etc."
>>reasons where an ISP may not want his traffic to traverse some
>>particular AS number(s). Something which is beyond BGP to determine
>>as of now ! :-)
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