[AusNOG] Optimising Telstra Inbound Traffic

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Have you tried Prepending once or twice to your Melbourne upstream?
Otherwise Melbourne is less hops than the local Perth transit :)



On 19 December 2014 at 16:46, Stephen Dendtler <
sdendtler-ausnog at rackcorp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having some problems getting Telstra inbound routes optimal -
> particularly for
> Perth-Originated Telstra/Bigpond traffic.  My scenario is this:
>     Telstra (Perth Originated) <-> Optus <-> Upstream ISP 1 (In Perth) <->
> My AS
>     Telstra (Perth Originated) <-> Upstream ISP 2 (In  Melbourne) <-> My AS
>
> Regardless of BGP path padding, Telstra always prefers to route their
> traffic via Upstream ISP 2 (hand-off in Melbourne).  I'd really like
> to be able to pick up Telstra Perth traffic in Perth as some of it is
> destined for services there rather than having it go Perth -> Melbourne
> -> Perth.  All other main ISPs I've checked are being picked up fine
> (Ignoring TPG)
>
> Does anyone know if there's a policy around Telstra preferring Paid-Transit
> over Peering (regardless of inter-state) and/or if there's another way to
> overcome things without resorting to buying transit from them in Perth or
> dedicating a prefix for Perth services (which is what we've been doing to
> date).
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>  - Stephen
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AusNOG mailing list
> AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
>


-- 

Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
--
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
 We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
 and tore the world asunder
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20141219/304f14e0/attachment.html>