[9156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP communities and customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre Thibaudeau)
Wed May 7 13:46:50 1997
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:23:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Thibaudeau <prt@Teleglobe.CA>
Reply-To: Pierre Thibaudeau <prt@Teleglobe.CA>
To: Jeremy Hinton <jgh@visi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970507124238.5757D-100000@london>
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jeremy Hinton wrote:
> I'm just wondering if many providers are seeing/doing this
> already, as systems like this could seem to give the end customer quite a
> bit more control of not only how outcoming traffic flows, but incoming as
> well (quite possibly at the price of some redundency). Are many providers
> negotiable to creating and accepting communities from downstream customers?
MCI sets local preference based on community attributes. See
<http://infopage.mci.net/Routing/communities.html> for details. Sprint
does the same (on an experimental base, better check if applied to your
BGP), using community attribute values 1239:70, 1239:80 and 1239:90.
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