[166348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental questions of backbone design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Rohan)
Fri Oct 18 16:26:17 2013
From: Dan Rohan <drohan@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <526196C6.4080805@Janoszka.pl>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:25:33 -0700
To: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl> wrote:=
> You may always prefer peering routes local to the PoP (giving them the hig=
hest localpref). This way you will not carry so much traffic on your backbon=
e.
Just imagine what paths would look like if everyone followed that advice. Yu=
ck. I'd say that approach makes sense for cash and bandwidth strapped provid=
ers, but its not necessarily looking out for the best interests of your cust=
omers.=20
