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Subject: Re: MED example
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:09:34 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > In Lecture 11 slide 44,
  > Can I do the same thing using AS-PATH inflation (instead of using MED)?
  > 
  > AS1 exports:
  > 11.0/16: a(1)
  > 11.0/16: c(1 1)
  > 11.1/16: a(1 1)
  > 11.1/16: c(1)

You can achieve the same effect if you are limited to this
example.

You can argue that it's not *exactly* the same thing because
AS2 can ignore MED but it cannot ignore AS-PATH inflation.
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