[c-nsp] BGP peering visibility

[Mark Tinka]

On 3/Nov/15 16:15, Nick Cutting wrote:

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> However the Other carrier's looking glass - which is what the other 40 percent of clients use, is using the inbound route with multiple prepends and the last resort community.  

Assuming you are announcing consistently, the other provider could be
overriding your desires with LOCAL_PREF on their side.

Best to confirm with them, as you are doing.

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> I imagine many people on this list have decent visibility as you probably have multiple peerings.  
> What tools are out there that may help me with my limited visibility?
> I want to see the how the carriers that my clients are using are connected to my own upstream ISP's - I'm not sure how to go about this.

A simple way to view this is with an example below:

    http://bgp.he.net/AS174

Replace with ASN of interest.

Mark.