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Re: BGP Communities - almost an operational question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marten Terpstra)
Tue Sep 1 11:49:40 1998

To: amb@gxn.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:01:02 EDT.
             <199808312201.SAA04615@adastra.merit.net> 
From: Marten Terpstra <marten@BayNetworks.COM>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:29:34 -0400


 * > 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?

No max (other than message length) for Bay. I just tested with 100
communities and it worked as expected.

-Marten

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