[189016] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Superfluous advertisement (was: Friday's Random Comment)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Apr 30 20:25:39 2016
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Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 09:25:32 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jakob Heitz <jheitz@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <7ed30fbc28fb4c34be602e197a37c48f@XCH-ALN-014.cisco.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> If B does not send the /24 to F,
> then F will send all the traffic to C,
> even if A wanted a load balance.
>
> Maybe I could ask the community:
> Why do you advertise longer prefixes with the
> same nexthop as the shoter prefix?
> Is it this use case, or something else?
it is a common TE use case. but folk watching the water rise
are starting to ask why the whole world should pay for A's TE.
randy
