<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I would like to keep it simple by advertising the x/24 and a/23 on ISP1 link and y/24 and a/23 on ISP2 link.<div>Then check to see what the prepends are on the looking glass to see how your ISP’s advertise this.</div><div><br></div><div>Then you will know the next cause of action.</div><div><br></div><div>Babatunde.</div><div> <br><div><div>On 30 May 2014, at 09:20, Alex Rhys-Hurn <<a href="mailto:alex@itworx.co.ke">alex@itworx.co.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>I should add my AS Number 37166 but I guess you can look that up too.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Rhys-Hurn" <<a href="mailto:alex@itworx.co.ke">alex@itworx.co.ke</a>><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:afnog@afnog.org">afnog@afnog.org</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, 30 May, 2014 11:16:35 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [afnog] Help Please - is my ISP Stripping my prepends?<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Dear Mark,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for working with me, I really appreciate the input.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My prefixes are:<br></div><div>194.9.64.0/23<br></div><div>194.9.64.0/24<br></div><div>194.9.65.0/24<br></div><div><br></div><div>Announced as:<br></div><div><div>194.9.65.0/24 via Access Kenya with no prepend<br></div><div>194.9.64.0/24 via ISP1 prepended 3x</div><div>194.9.0.0/23 via Access Kenya with no prepend</div><div><br></div><div>and</div></div><div><br></div><div>194.9.64.0/24 via Safaricom with no prepend</div><div><div>194.9.65.0/24 via Safaricom prepended 3x</div><div>194.9.0.0/23 via Safaricom prepended 3x<br></div><div><br></div><div>I should add that we only receive default route from the ISP.<br></div><div><br></div><div>yes, as per your email, I am not seeing the expected behaviour from ISP 2 Safaricom. But now that I look again, I see paths to safaricom that are prepended (their AS 37061) being prepended 5x so my path is still shorter via my prepended path on Access Kenya. Should I just ramp up my prepending on Access Kenya?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Rhys-Hurn" <alex@itworx.co.ke><br><b>To: </b>afnog@afnog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, 30 May, 2014 10:37:06 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[afnog] Help Please - is my ISP Stripping my prepends?<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hello everyone,<br></div><div><br></div><div>This is my first post here, I hope somebody can help.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a /23 which I have divided in to two /24s<br></div><div><br></div><div>My objective is to balance (as far is as possible) traffic across two ISP links using filters with prepend.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have announced as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>194.9.a.0/24 via ISP1 with no prepend<br></div><div>194.9.b.0/24 via ISP1 prepended 3x<br></div><div>194.9.a.0/23 via ISP1 with no prepend<br></div><div><br></div><div>and<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>194.9.a.0/24 via ISP2 prepended 3x<br></div><div>194.9.b.0/24 via ISP2 with no prepend<br></div><div>194.9.a.0/23 via ISP2 prepended 3x<br></div><div><br></div><div>When I use the looking glass at lg.he.net I can see the prepends from ISP1 properly, but I cannot see the prepends from ISP2<br>, my traffic works over both links but is very heavy on ISP1<br></div><div><br></div><div>Does this mean the ISP is stripping the prepends? Is there anything I can do about it?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this is clear, and that somebody may have some insight.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span></span><div><strong>Alex Rhys-Hur</strong><strong>n </strong>| <strong>ITworX Limited</strong><br>P.O. 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