[86004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /24 multihoming issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Oct 20 14:00:50 2005
In-Reply-To: <17239.19591.685223.813463@roam.psg.com>
Cc: Kyaw Khine <joekhine@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:00:16 -0400
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 20, 2005, at 3:51 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
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>> Is 7018 preferring 19094 over 701 regardless of
>> AS-PATH length?
>>
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> the convention is that, if 19094 is a customer of
> 7018, then it will always prefer it.
And this is a good reason not to cross "tiers" of your transit
providers. Either have both "transit free" or both should have transit.