[40927] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Sun Aug 26 01:23:43 2001
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:23:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Travis Pugh <tdp@discombobulated.net>
Cc: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
Jeff Cates <catesjl9394@yahoo.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Travis Pugh wrote:
> > I would be very upset if I were "Company X" and I found out that you were
> > policy-routing my traffic to the "cheap" connection vs the best
> > connection.
>
> I had the exact same thing proposed to me at one point or another in a
> different life, and refused outright. If the salespeople in question are
> like most, they've already hyped the quality of whatever transit circuits
> the SP in question has ... even if it hasn't been specifically mentioned,
> piping a given customer's traffic out your cheapest transit point is
> something I'd consider ethically questionable. I'm sure the customer won't
> appreciate it either.
I've had the same sort of thing proposed. If the customer knows in
advance that you're going to send all their traffic through your cheapest
peer/transit path available, what's the problem? They get what they pay
for...and for this sort of service, they'd obviously be paying noticably
less than best path routed customers.
I haven't actually set one of these up yet, but I don't see why they'd
need to be directly on the router to peer-A...unless you're figuring the
policy routing overhead will be substantially lower if you're applying on
their interface rather than a generic interface (with additional traffic)
on the peer-A connected router.
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