On Friday, December 16, 2011 05:02:33 AM Joe Malcolm wrote: > Once upon a time, UUNET did the opposite by setting > origin to unknown for peer routes, in an attempt to > prefer customer routes over peer routes. We moved to > local preference shortly thereafter as it became clear > this was "changing" the routes in some meaningful way; > if a customer was multihomed to us and another provider, > this might affect path selection.
This raises an interesting question we've dealt with many a time in our network - outside of situations mandated by governments or some such, are ISP's happy to peer with their customers (where "peer" = settlement-free exchanging of routes/traffic across public interconnects while "customers" = servicing a commercial IP Transit contract)? Mark.
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