[119059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upstream BGP community support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Thu Nov 5 17:27:26 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:26:42 -0500
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2hbtdw7nv.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Randy Bush expunged (randy@psg.com):
> i try to complicate the internals of my network as little as possible,
> after all, complexity == opex and i value my time, it is a non-renewable
> resource.
I'm guessing you don't have the same financial constraints that others on this list have.
When you have "lots of traffic(tm)" to move around, and some paths are more 'spensive than others, you often don't have a choise but to muck with communities, or so I've heard....
-Steve