[c-nsp] downlink bgp interconnect best practices

[Pete Templin]

On 5/31/2011 11:48 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> We do mostly "hot-potato" routing, that is: if local-pref, path-length
> and med are all the same, just send out the nearest upstream / peering
> point.
>
> Which would do the right thing in that case :-) - but if your policy
> is different, it won't.
>
If your network geography doesn't align with your upstream 
capacity/commitments, something has to be done, and inevitably getting 
it "balanced" the way that layer 8 wants it done is never easy.  :)

pt