Re: Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy

2012-08-02 Thread Adrian M
Better to use communities instead. On Aug 2, 2012 11:34 AM, "Fredy Kuenzler" wrote: > From my observation Level3 has recently changed their routing policy. It > seems that 3356 always prefers customer prefixes of 3549, regardless of the > AS path length. Example (seen from 3356): > > 3549_13030_[

RE: Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy

2012-08-02 Thread Siegel, David
, 2012 6:41 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:33:38 +0200 Fredy Kuenzler wrote: > From my observation Level3 has recently changed their routing policy. > It seems that 3356 always prefers customer prefixes of 3549, > rega

RE: Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy

2012-08-02 Thread John van Oppen
It probably should be noted that AS3356's local pref heirarchy is as follows: Highest: customers of 3356 Next highest: customers of 3549 Lowest: peers This does not really seem odd at all, and is probably what I would do if I owned two separate networks that were going to take a long time to mer

Re: Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy

2012-08-02 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, David Reader wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:33:38 +0200 Level 3 owns both 3356 and 3549. They're simply preferring to have their customers pay them, rather than a 3rd party. I don't think it's suprising at all that they're doing it. If, as you think, it's only happened recentl

Re: Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy

2012-08-02 Thread David Reader
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:33:38 +0200 Fredy Kuenzler wrote: > From my observation Level3 has recently changed their routing policy. It > seems that 3356 always prefers customer prefixes of 3549, regardless of the > AS path length. Example (seen from 3356): > > 3549_13030_[Customer1]_[Customer2] >

Level3 (3356/3549) changes routing policy

2012-08-02 Thread Fredy Kuenzler
From my observation Level3 has recently changed their routing policy. It seems that 3356 always prefers customer prefixes of 3549, regardless of the AS path length. Example (seen from 3356): 3549_13030_[Customer1]_[Customer2] is preferred over 2914_[Customer1]_[Customer2] Considering that bo