> If you start going there, you will end being *stuck* there - having to fiddle with local-pref again and again, because inevitably, you will have cases > where you prefer a 10-AS-hop-paths over a 2-AS-hop-paths, and that way, enforce poor connectivity for your users. > > (As a well-known net person tends to say "I encourage my competitors to do this". Amen.)
The only problem is that increase in deaggregation and AS path prepend changes this logic a bit and you should have upstream providers with different connectivity matrix. For a big ISP it is the best approach tough. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
