[142077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 BGP communities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jun 17 19:20:29 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <499402.79882.qm@web121418.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:18:49 -0700
To: Serge Vautour <serge@nbnet.nb.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I think it actually makes complete sense to use the same BGP communities =
for the
same purposes regardless of address family.
Owen
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Serge Vautour wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I'm looking at re-writing our IPv4 BGP policies for IPv6. Does anyone =
see a=20
> problem with re-using the same BGP community values? If we use AS:110 =
for LP 110=20
> under IPv4, can I just use AS:110 for LP 110 under IPv6? Technically =
it works -=20
> at least I haven't seen a problem in my initial tests. It sure would =
make=20
> everything easier than assigning new values. Is there a BCP for this?
>=20
> Thanks,
> Serge
>=20
