[19166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Communities - almost an operational question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (swright@merit.edu)
Mon Aug 31 18:19:18 1998
From: swright@merit.edu
To: amb@gxn.net
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:01:02 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199808291143.MAA11020@diamond.xara.net> from "Alex Bligh" at Aug 29, 98 12:43:06 pm
> I've been trying to find out any logical reason why Ciscos limit me
> to 16 communities per route. I'm not asking on cisco-nsp as I want
> to know whether other routers suffer this limitation.
>
> So:
> a) Have I just read the RFC wrong?
> b) Does other s/w (GateD. Bay etc.) have the same limitation?
GateD currently defaults to a maximum of 25 communities per route, but it
can be easily changed by increasing AS_COMM_MAX at compile time.
--
Shane Wright
Merit Network
