On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, William Herrin wrote:
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.
Not at all. Think like a service provider.
"I've got packets to deliver. I've got 3 different classes of paths I can
use. One of them, I get paid to use. One is cost neutral. The last one,
I pay to use."
Which path would you pick (assuming you're trying to maximize revenue
from your network)?
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