[118920] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Upstream BGP community support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Dickson)
Mon Nov 2 15:45:10 2009
From: Brian Dickson <Brian.Dickson@concertia.com>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:44:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4AEF3AF2.7040402@brightok.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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