North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP communities and customers
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. __ Pierre Thibaudeau | e-mail: <[email protected]> TELEGLOBE CANADA | 1000, rue de La Gauchetiere ouest | Tel: +1-514-868-7257 Montreal, QC H3B 4X5 | Canada | fax: +1-514-868-8446 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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