North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP communities usage for route origin, entry point
Many providers document their communities on webpages: eg: http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#communities http://cw-rr.cw.net/community_receive.htm http://cw-rr.cw.net/community_announce.htm you probally just need to find the uunet specific webpage as it realtes to this. - jared On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:13:50PM -0400, Thomas Kernen wrote: > > > This started off as me being curious as to why a UUNet engineer I was > talking to told me he could not understand why a network would support a > feature such as BGP communities for identifying the origin of a > route/network entry point. I tried to explain to him the advantage of being > able to quickly identify where a route originates from (geographically), > type of interconnect, type of "peer" (in this case I use peer for any BGP > peer, customer or transit). I explained that it could be usefull for > debugging and gaining more background info (route analysis is one of my > favorite tasks) and some of the major and minor networks do provide such a > feature/service. > > Still the engineer could not understand why and only saw this as a security > issue, well I guess when you work for a network that does not provide any > public looking glass or route server it's not really a surprise </rant> > > This triggered a thought, do many people actually use BGP communities to > pinpoint a route origination point/type, and if so for what purpose > (debugging, analysis, other) > > Thomas > > PS: If UUNet do actually support this feature please tell me who I should > contact. -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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