[118850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upstream BGP community support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Oct 31 20:36:21 2009
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:34:28 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ffcec29f0910311730p3016b68dtae216a068af2234a@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Here is the problem as I see it. Sure some % fo the people using BGP
> are bright nuff to use some upstreams communities, but sadly many are
> not. So this ends up breaking one or more networks, who in turn twist
> more dials causing other changes.. rinse, wash and repeat. But like
> Randy said who am I to stop anyone from playing... just means those of
> us with clue will be able to continue to earn a pay check for a very
> long time still :)
i would rather earn it by designing things, not by cleaning up messes
made by kiddies needing to show off.
randy