[40833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routescience?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Finn)
Thu Aug 23 11:48:14 2001
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:46:50 -0700
From: Sean Finn <seanf@routescience.com>
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To: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: Mike Lloyd <drmike@routescience.com>,
Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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Christoper,
no, the PathControl device does *not* adjust outgoing
advertisements in any way; all prefixes that we repeat
carry the NO_EXPORT attribute.
cheers -- Sean
"Christopher A. Woodfield" wrote:
>
> 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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