[58500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Communities BCP [was: RE: BGP Path Filtering]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Fri May 16 15:15:16 2003
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:13:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Daniel Golding <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>, Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIAELENAAB.deepak@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
To take a crack at it...
- Route origin - customer, peer, transit provider, other (dial, etc)
- Route geography - depends on your network, but some have seperate
communities for POP, Country, Region, etc
- Customer originated information - tweaks by your customers to
selectively prepend, change local pref, not send to peers, or what not
- Source AS - simply your AS:peer AS that the route was learned from
There was an Internet Draft, last year, that summarized some of the
approachs. I suspect overspecificity in this case has never done any harm,
while lack of specificity has probably caused some heartache.
- Daniel Golding
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
> > I like using BGP communities:
> > o filter announcements you receive from downstreams based on your
> > criteria of choice
> > o set a specific BGP community (yourAS:whatever) on
> > announcements which
> > are to be propagated to various places (upstream providers, etc.)
> > o do output filtering based on the communities you set
> > Make sure you clear yourAS:whatever in announcements from your BGP peers.
> >
> > You can use this same technique for prefixes you originate, so
> > that all your
> > outbound BGP filtering is based on communities.
>
> I am hijacking this thread a bit. Setting communities is excellent advice
> especially if you are just starting out with downstream ASes.
>
> The question is that changing your communities down the road might be a big
> headache depending on whether you'll come to need more advanced ways of
> filtering your announcements than coarse communities allow. Especially when
> going (through growth or acquisition) from a single metro network to a
> multi-metro or national/international one.
>
> What criteria does the community think should be used when specifying
> communities. IMO, overspecificity [sp?] doesn't hurt, but others may (and
> have) disagreed. What's the BCP?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deepak Jain
> AINET
>
>
