[40829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routescience?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Thu Aug 23 11:31:38 2001
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:30:20 -0400
To: Mike Lloyd <drmike@routescience.com>
Cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Message-ID: <20010823113020.C7846@semihuman.com>
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From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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Can/will the box adjust inbound route selection via the use of prepending
and/or provider communities?
-C
> Once more, we do not cause the stub AS's own advertisement of themselves
> to change. We specifically avoid touching locally originated prefixes.
> If the ISP is currently accepting any of the routes PathControl is
> designed to change, then the AS is not stub, it's transit. Hopefully
> this clarifies an important issue.
>
> (Referring back to Paul Vixie's point, we have found that careful
> optimization of a single outbound step has very substantial payoffs in
> terms of the end to end, bidirectional performance. The figures quoted
> on our web page and in the press release refer to this: end to end
> application speedup caused solely by outbound route selection!)
>
> Mike
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