[118837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upstream BGP community support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Sat Oct 31 16:45:55 2009
In-Reply-To: <d626d8700910311337q3924eeeel5acd93816c985984@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:45:09 -0400
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: "Andy B." <globichen@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We have transit through Peer1 and Telia, both accept communities. I
wouldn't consider buying from someone who didn't.
Jeff
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Andy B. <globichen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question: Would you buy transit from someone who does not
> support BGP communities?
>
> Here is the story:
>
> My company is pushing several GBit/s through various upstream
> providers. We have reached the point where we rely on BGP communitiy
> support, especially communities that can be sent to the upstream to
> change the way he announces our prefixes to his peers/transits.
>
> While most decent upstream providers support this kind of traffic
> engineering, one of them refuses to send and accept BGP communities. I
> tried to contact my upstream several times through different channels
> to get some background as to why they would not be able to provide us
> this service, but all we get is tickets that get closed without an
> answer. Management itself does not seem to bother either.
>
> Is this normal or is it too much to ask for BGP communities from an
> upstream who has points of presence in the US, Europe and Asia?
>
>
> Andy
>
>
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