Hi, On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 01:45:39PM -0500, David Farmer wrote: > Reading this discussion, I propose the following; > > Move the use of Local-Prefrence to the last bullet of Section 4, "Best > Practice," and rewrite as follows > > - If possible, the use of local-preference to locally override AS path > selection should be avoided. This can lead other networks to excessively > prepend their AS Paths to you in a futile attempt to influence your > network. Nevertheless, sometimes the use of local-preference is the only > way to achieve a desired traffic engineer policy. > > Does this strike the right balance for folks?
Sort of. I would twist it a bit differently, something with more bias
on "it's the largest hammer in your toolbox, so use with care" - can't
find good wording right now.
Gert Doering
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