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Re: Lessons from the AU model

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Barry)
Sun Jan 20 20:44:50 2008

Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:43:08 +1100
From: Martin Barry <marty@supine.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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$quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
>
> .. think about what happens when your customers' routes start appearing 
> through your MLP session as well.

Standard practice would be to localpref customer routes over peering routes.

Likely to result in assymetric routing as the customer prefers peering
routes over transit.

The customer's inbound (standard billing metric) won't be affected but their
ratio might.

BTDTGTTS

cheers
marty

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