Except when their primary path goes away and relatively few networks install the prepended route. It's all conjecture, but I like the 'in effort to defeat local pref' option.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not using that prepended route is exactly what the point of the prepend > is, so that's not "punishment". > > It may, in fact, be exactly what they're trying to get you to do. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Jon Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:17 PM >>To: Mike Lewinski >>Cc: nanog@nanog.org >>Subject: Re: What's with all the long aspaths? >> >>On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Lewinski wrote: >> >>> I'm sure they get the attention of NOCs around the world as messages >>like >>> this show up on consoles >>> >>> Oct 22 04:34:05 MDT: %BGP-6-BIGCHUNK: Big chunk pool request (306) > for >>> aspath. Replenishing with malloc >> >>You might consider something like bgp maxas-limit 75 to exchange that >>log >>message for the less scarey >>Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path ... >> >>As an added bonus, you ignore their route while they're playing such >>games. >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jon Lewis | I route >> Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are >> Atlantic Net | >>_________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > > >
