[93601] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: anycasting behind different ASNs?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matthew zeier)
Wed Dec 6 17:06:16 2006

Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:52:09 -0800
From: matthew zeier <mrz@velvet.org>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0612061215001.20681@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu




william(at)elan.net wrote:
> What is the problem you're trying to solve that you think inconsistent 
> origin AS announcements of the same network would solve which announcements
> (from same locations) with same AS would not solve?

Mostly to avoid GRE tunnels and the added "complexity" therein.

My real question was whether anyone actually cared about inconsistent AS 
paths and did something (drop traffic) because of it.  Appears that it's 
not much of an issue.

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post