[c-nsp] BGP Question - Upstream

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Our primary problem is that inbound traffic prefers the Tier1 routes
> because our other 2 hop Tier 1 is farther away in AS hops.... we prepend
> right now and do weighting to get around this.. was just wondering if
> there was a way to make the 2 hop Tier1 look like 1 hop :)

It could possibly be done using route-maps, but as a general rule, you 
don't want to scribble on incoming routes, beyond doing prepends.  This is 
especially true if you provide BGP feeds to downstream customers :-)

jms