<html><body><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><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:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;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; color: #000000"><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>| <span style="font-weight: bold;">ITworX Limited</span><br>P.O. Box 1649, 00502, Karen, Kenya<br>Tel: +254 (0) 20 2444824 | Cell: +254 (0) 724 972541<br>Web: <a href="http://www.itworx.co.ke" target="_blank">www.itworx.co.ke</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;"><img src="cid:b1e6dc39a3c25543c0d7d08c47cf06eb514da653@zimbra" style="width: 135px; height: 62px;"><br></span><br></div><div><br></div><span></span><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>afnog mailing list<br>http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog</blockquote><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Rhys-Hur</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">n </span>| <span style="font-weight: bold;">ITworX Limited</span><br>P.O. Box 1649, 00502, Karen, Kenya<br>Tel: +254 (0) 20 2444824 | Cell: +254 (0) 724 972541<br>Web: <a href="http://www.itworx.co.ke">www.itworx.co.ke</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><u><img doc="Briefcase/webmail_logo.png" src="cid:7c8076be885bfa7c9077adc78123879edcbf238d@zimbra" style="width: 135px; height: 62px;"><br></u><br></div><div><br></div><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>