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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>sorry for the mistake....<br><br>I mean the 2nd link still preferred even it has longer AS-PATH.<br><br>Also I've contacted <b>HE</b>, they said all routes received from AS_1299 "telia" will be assigned local_pref =70.<br>this is by design and can't be changed.<br><br>this is a real issue for us, because we can't loadshare traffic properly via AS-PREPEND technique.<br><br><br><br><div>> To: afnog@afnog.org<br>> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:45:27 +0000<br>> From: robert@mckay.com<br>> Subject: Re: [afnog] local pref issue with HE<br>> <br>> >> the issue is how matter we prepend the 2nd link still the 1st link<br>> >> is preferred.<br>> <br>> Prepending a path makes it less preferable, not more preferable. <br>> Prepending the first route to make it longer and thus less preferable <br>> might push more traffic onto the second one.<br>> <br>> Really the only way to balance traffic is to have exactly the same <br>> upstream ISPs as transits at every location.. otherwise if you have <br>> different upstream ISPs at different locations, those ISPs (and their <br>> customers) will only send you traffic at the location where you are <br>> connected to them - even if there is a much closer path via a <br>> competitor.<br>> <br>> Rob<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> afnog mailing list<br>> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog<br></div> </div></body>
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