Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:32:32PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly. First off, your inbound is

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-17 Thread Anton Kapela
Drew, (in theory, and based upon number of peers, data): If you have a network with these upstream connections to the Internet you should see inbound traffic utilization in this order: AS   Name - 3356 Level3 7018 ATT 3549 Global Crossing 4323 Time Warner Telecom 10796

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:45:24AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: Howdy, Keep in mind I am basing this 'idea' off of fixed orbit's data which can sometimes be a bit out of date, etc. Understatement. [snip] I realize that we can use communities, and prepends to control the inbound flow, I am

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:45:24AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: I realize that we can use communities, and prepends to control the inbound flow, I am just speaking from a purely natural standpoint. I don't know where people are getting this natural bgp path selection concept from, but it is

RE: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Deepak Jain
As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly. First off, your inbound is someone else's outbound, and the person sending the traffic outbound is in complete and total control. The vast majority of

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:32:32PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly. First off, your inbound is someone else's outbound, and the person sending the traffic