The Effectiveness of AS Path Prepending (2)

17/05/2021
The Effectiveness of AS Path Prepending (2)

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Last week I began discussing why AS Path Prepend doesn’t always affect traffic the way we think it will. Two other observations from the research paper I’m working off of were:

Adding two prepends will move more traffic than adding a single prepend
It’s not possible to move traffic incrementally by prepending; when it works, prepending will end up moving most of the traffic from one inbound path to another

A slightly more complex network will help explain these two observations.