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Thread Index Re: [isp-bgp] managing BGP w/ a colo company
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:31:08AM -0600, Bob Hrbek wrote: > 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? :) Ask your upstreams for BGP communities, or ask them to manually jury-rig it to engineer it to your expectations. You can add L3's AS to your announcement as last resort, but that is quite tasteless I hear. I might favor this too, errr no I didn't say that. :) -J -- James Jun TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Technical Lead Boston IPv4/IPv6 Web Hosting, Colocation and james@... Network design/consulting & configuration services cell: 1(978)-394-2867 web: http://www.towardex.com , noc: www.twdx.net To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. Copyright 2005 Jupitermedia Corporation All Rights Reserved.
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