Re: IXP hardware

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:58:22AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> simple hacks to do route servers insert an AS in the middle, which
> can, in some circumstances, defeat the exchange as the costly
> international links might win the bgp routing tie-breaker.

I think most people would set localpref on their received IXP routes to
prefer them over their transit routes. And small ISPs who have only a single
transit provider (with defaultroute) will find that the IXP routes win
anyway, because of longest-prefix matching.

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