I always assumed that taking in more traffic was a bad thing. I've heard about one sided peering agreements where one side is sending more traffic than the other needs them to transport. Am I missing something? Would this cause a shift in their favor allowing them to offload more customer traffic to their peers without complaint?
2011/12/15 Jeff Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Keegan Holley > <keegan.hol...@sungard.com> wrote: > > Had in interesting conversation with a transit AS on behalf of a customer > > where I found out they are using communities to raise the local > preference > > That sounds like a disreputable practice. > > While not quite as obvious, some large transit ASes, like Level3, > reset the origin to I (best) sometime between when they learn it and > when they announce it to their customers and peers. This similarly > causes them to suck in a bit more traffic than they might otherwise. > > -- > Jeff S Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> > Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts > > >
