[c-nsp] BGP advertisements more specific than IGP

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:27:15PM +0000, James Urwiller wrote:
> Community strings don't effect inbound traffic, right?

They do, if your upstreams support that ("hey, upstream, please make
*this* route local-pref 70, and do 3x prepend on *that* route to DECIX").

> Is there really no good way to influence inbound traffic?

There is, it's called "professional upstreams that permit community based
traffic engineering" :-)

gert
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