* b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) [Mon 22 Jan 2024, 15:05 CET]:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:24 AM Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote:
Standard practice is to localpref your customers up, which makes
prepends irrelevant. Why would anyone expect different behavior?
It gives me, your paying customer, less control over my routing
through your network than if I wasn't your paying customer. That
seems... backwards.
Most sellers of IP transit offer a "treat as peer" BGP community which
will flatten your localpref to that of peers rather than a customer.
-- Niels.
