[ixpmanager] BGP Extended Communities

[Joe Wooller]

*nod, 

So what to people do currently.. Just deal with it? :(

Joe

On 24/04/2013, at 10:32 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:

> On 24/04/2013 15:12, Joe Wooller wrote:
>> Is anyone on here using extended communities, and if so what are your policies.
>> Given this seems to be the standard that most lean towards.
>> 
>> 	IXASN:IXASN - Send prefixes to all other route-server participants
>> 	IXASN:PEERASN - Send prefix to only route-server participant with specific ASN
>> 	0:PEERASN - Do not send prefix to route-server participant with specific ASN
>> 	0:0 - Do not echo prefix to any other route-server participants.
>> 
>> I was hoping to try and adopt some sort of standard to help make it easier for international peers to jump on board if they were to build down here.
>> However under juniper you can not match an extended community with 0:asnhere, or origin:0:asnhere 
> 
> this community policy filtering convention breaks when dealing with 32 bit
> communities.  The only hope is to get proper 32 bit community support into
> BGP (i.e. 32:32 instead of the current hacks).  This isn't even at IETF
> internet draft stage.
> 
> Nick
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