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Yes, but doing it intentionally isn't as simple as one might think. First, BGP generally prefers the shortest path and yours is going to be a little long, so unless the best original path is very long you need on some transit provider to use policy-based routing and trust you as transit. Second, if you want the traffic to pass through your hardware you have to have sufficient bandwidth, otherwise you'll just trigger…
About > First, BGP generally prefers the shortest path and yours is going to be a little long, so unless the best original path is very long you need on some transit provider to use policy-based routing and trust you as transit. the article states: > The leaked route is likely preferable because of a localpref setting which would prefer sending traffic for free through a peer regardless of the AS path length, over pa…
This happens legitimately, e.g. when an end-user becomes multihomed or starts using anycast, so the trusting peer can't necessarily discover this algorithmically. Route signing helps.