[afnog] BGP Inbound Traffic Engineering

[Renaud]

  Le 27/07/2010 13:29, Isaiah Makwakwa a écrit :
> Hie,
>
> We would like to implement inbound traffic engineering. We are looking 
> at implementing selective advertisement (advertising different subnets 
> to different providers) as a BGP traffic engineering technique.
>
> However we are unable to get a precise fix on best practice for doing 
> so. In may places we have looked, it is an accepted practice, however 
> there are some voices of concern that some operators would filter the 
> routes (precisely  the prefixes would be around /20s and /21s).
>
> I would like to get a more clearer view of what consists an acceptable 
> policy.
>

You should contact your upstream provider to see with him if you can 
have a bit more control over your prefix advertisement using the bgp 
community option. It's better than splitting a /21 into /24 ....

Renaud
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