RE: [isp-bgp] managing BGP w/ a colo company

["David Hubbard" <dhubbard@...>]

Your colo provider would need to be set up to allow
you to send communities to tell them to handle the
traffic in a different way.  Maybe they have something
that allows you to tell them what you prefer your
next hop to be for example.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hrbek [mailto:bhrbek@...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:31 AM
> To: isp-bgp@isp-bgp.com
> Subject: [isp-bgp] managing BGP w/ a colo company
> 
> We receive our bandwidth from a colocation company that has peering w/
> Sprint, Qwest, Global Crossing and Level3.   Recently the 
> Level3 routes started inducing some fairly significant
> latency.   We announce our networks to the colo company
> which then announces them to their upstreams.  Is there
> anyway I can manipulate my BGP announcements so my 
> inbound/outbound traffic prefers a provider other than
> Level3?   Can I just add L3's AS to my announcement a few times? :)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> 




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