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Lower cost usually means lower quality and is an example of how a long path being leaked can result in traffic flowing away from high quality path to the leaked
by codexon 9mo ago
Lower cost usually means lower quality and is an example of how a long path being leaked can result in traffic flowing away from high quality path to the leaked path.
Not saying that this is the case with Venezuela, just explaining the reality of BGP where path prepends are often ignored.
- mlyle 9mo agoHis claim-- as best as I can read it-- is that B leaking a long-length route changes where traffic is routed, but not to B. It's possible he's saying something else, but I can't figure out, and he hasn't clarified.