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Re: AS path question.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Wed Nov 10 16:12:38 2010

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:12:30 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
In-Reply-To: <003b01cb8118$0651e660$12f5b320$@net>
Cc: 'Greg Whynott' <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org



Stefan Fouant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----

>
> IMO, a combination of both community tagging to influence localpref coupled
> with AS Path prepending on the secondary link is the best approach, and
> seems to accommodate both steady state as well as failure scenarios
> properly.
>
> Stefan Fouant


So how far from you can you propagate community tags to influence the 
route decision process to your second transit upstream peer?


Joe


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