Re: Africa Online Routing

["Gabriel Onkundi" <gonkundi@afsat.com>]

On a different note , our (afsat's) router at the ixp has refused to power
up for reasons we do not know as yet . Please bear with us .
rgds

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tinka" <mtinka@africaonline.co.ug>
To: <techies@uixp.co.ug>
Cc: <lug@linux.or.ug>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: Africa Online Routing


> Hi all.
>
> This is especially to members that take part in the BGP routing on the
> Internet, and specifically accept the full routing table from your
upstream
> carriers.
>
> Africa Online Uganda is participating in the global routing table, by
> announcing its own prefixes to the Internet. However, we are announcing
> longer prefixes for traffic engineering reasons, which means for members
> that receive a full BGP feed, it's possible your router's will prefer the
> path to our network over the Internet, even after you receive our prefixes
> from the exchange. This is because our prefixes at the exchange are
> aggregated, and thus, shorter than the ones advertised on the Internet.
>
> To solve this, you may use the LOCAL_PREF or MED attributes, or even Cisco
> Weights, to prefer our prefixes that you learn over the exchange.
>
> If you should have any questions, please feel free to mail me on/off list.
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Tinka - CCNP
> Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
>
>
>
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