On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 07:01:13AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote:
> If I understand the OP correctly, I will use this real world example:
>
> https://onestep.net/communities/as174/
>
> 174:3001 through 174:3003 as compared to doing the prepending
> yourself. What is the functional difference?
>
> BGP neighbors of 174 will see just as many AS hops either way, but
> non-BGP customers of 174 would see you just one hop away. It's just
> another method of traffic engineering.
According to the link you provided, 3001..3003 are effective on "ALL
peer[s]" (which is differnet from all BGP neighbors). So BGP-speaking
customers of 174 will not see the prepending if you use 174:3001..3003,
but peers will; but if you do the prepending yourself, then all 174's
peers and all 174's BGP-speaking customers see it.
-- Brett
