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<div>TPG want to influence traffic to traverse via Transit links which are more expensive than via Peering exchanges (even there own).</div>
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<div>It's a silly network strategy and only hurts there own customers but at the same time increases the amount of bandwidth required by PIPE Transit customers which equals more revenue :(</div>
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<div>PS I love path stuffing but the term technically is path prepending.<br>
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<div>Kindest Regards,</div>
Nathan Brookfield
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<div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd</span></div>
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On 10 Jun 2014, at 10:31, "Alex Samad - Yieldbroker" <<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Hi</span><br>
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<span>I noticed something strange on the weekend with my BGP setup. Thought I would ask the group if it looks strange to.
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<span>So at work we peer with Internode and Pipe. My home connection is with TPG.</span><br>
<span>I noticed on the weekend my traffic was routing asymmetrically </span><br>
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<span>My home -> TPG -> Work</span><br>
<span>Work -> Internode -> My home</span><br>
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<span>Found this rather strange as I thought PIPE -> TPG would be the preferred path. So I dug into my BGP peers and looked at the tables</span><br>
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<span>What I found was rather strange from internode I had this AS path 4739,18398,7545, from Pipe I have this AS path 24130,7545,7545,7545, so for some reason TPG is AS stuffing (? Right term ? ) their prefix to Pipe.</span><br>
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<span>That's rather strange I think. I don't want to have to mess too much with my BGP filters to do to any trick things, I believe I would re weight it such that TPG via pipe is the preference, but I wonder why TPG would do this.</span><br>
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<span>I did contact the NOC @ Pipe.. As far as they are concerned every things okay. Let me paraphrase... 1 company 2 businesses
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<span>I am not sure why TPG would want to do that ?</span><br>
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