[ixpmanager] route server template/32bit ASNs

[Nick Hilliard]

Hi Stefan,

1. static mapping doesn't scale

3. INEX did some models based on this a couple of years ago and decided
that it wouldn't work

2. is potentially interesting but is limited by the fact that not all
routers support draft-ietf-idr-as4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype, and many
only support a small number of fixed types of extended community.  This
means that interoperability is a problem.

There are no good solutions to this problem at the moment.  INEX advises
route server users to use ASN16s, but that can mean renumbering ASNs.

Nick

On 06/08/2015 08:27, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> We recently deployed IXP-Manager as the management platform for SAIX
> (https://www.saix.at). One thing that pretty quickly came up is the fact
> that the current routeserver templates (we use bird) do not have any
> support for any kind of controlling announcements for 32bit ASNs.
> Looking at what other IXPs do there seem to be three different methods
> currently in use:
> 
> * static mapping of 32bit ASNs to communities in the 64512 to 65534 range
> (mostly smaller/midsized exchanges)
> * BGP extended communities (DE-CIX)
> * IRRdb/RPSL based outgoing filtering (AMS-IX)
> 
> are there any plans of adding any of those concepts to IXP-Manager or maybe
> has somebody already created a template/integrations scripts to look at?
> 
> 
> regards & thanks for a great platform to kickstart an IXP!
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
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