[AusNOG] Optimising Telstra Inbound Traffic

[Tom Storey]

I thought we all learned that from the Dodo initiated outage a few years
back? :-)

On 19 December 2014 at 20:12, Phill Groom <pgroom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Macca nailed it.
>
> When I worked for TID many years ago our policy and that of others was as
> he described.
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/13753-25.html
>
> Phill.
> On 19/12/2014 4:47 PM, "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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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