[153144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HE.net BGP origin attribute rewriting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu May 31 08:04:14 2012
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:03:00 +0200 (CEST)
To: thegameiam@yahoo.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <088CAAF4-B6AD-4CA7-B4A3-0905B0ED3FAB@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I disagree. Origin is tremendously useful as a multi-AS weighting
> tool, and isn't the blunt hammer that AS_PATH is.
If you think of AS_PATH as a blunt hammer, how would you describe
localpref?
We use AS_PATH in many cases *precisely* because we don't consider it
to be a blunt hammer...
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
