The biggest issue with using a heavy hammer to effect traffic is that you don't always know why the other side is routing the way they are. Could be simple cost (peer vs transit) or a larger issue like congestion. Either way think before you route.
I'm thinking Pandora's box hasn't just been opened but blown apart..... -jim On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * jim deleskie: > >> Announcing a smaller bit of one of you block is fine, more then that >> most everyone I know does it or has done and is commonly accepted. >> Breaking up someone else' s block and making that announcement even if >> its to modify traffic between 2 peered networks is typically not >> looked as proper. Modify your taffic good. Do it to anyone other >> traffic = bad. > > No, the idea would be to do this to your own prefixes/traffic. > > > +------/AS 2/-----/AS 3/--------+ > | | > /AS 1/ /AS 4/ > | | > +----------/AS 5/---------------+ > > I'm AS 1, and the link to AS 2 has a bad metric from my POV. AS 4 uses > local preference (or something else I can't override by prepending my > own AS) to route traffic to me through AS 3 and AS 2. Now I prepend > AS 4 to my announcement to AS 2, and voilà, the traffic flows through > AS 5, as desired. > > No prefix hijacking has occurred (I would have received the traffic > anyway, just over a different path), it's just traffic engineering. > (But probably a variant that is generally frowned upon.) >
