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Re: Upstream BGP community support
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:09:38 -0500
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:37:03PM +0100, Andy B. wrote:
While most decent upstream providers support this kind of traffic engineering, one of them refuses to send and accept BGP communities. I tried to contact my upstream several times through different channels to get some background as to why they would not be able to provide us this service, but all we get is tickets that get closed without an answer. Management itself does not seem to bother either. Is this normal or is it too much to ask for BGP communities from an upstream who has points of presence in the US, Europe and Asia?
Yes and no. There are a handful of old stodgy networks who are of the belief that this kind of information is "proprietary", and therefore should not be sent to customers or other networks on the Internet. My opinion is that those networks are "idiots", and therefore money should not be sent to them. Even if (for whatever reason) you don't need a particular set of features in BGP communities, I personally think that they are an excellent indicator of the networks' general technical competence and ability to work with them on a wide variety of other issues. In this day and age a robust and functional set of communities should really be a requirement for any network provider. <shamelessplug> There was also a NANOG presentation on a pretty reasonable design and implementation of BGP communities for a service provider: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog40/presentations/BGPcommunities.pdf </shamelessplug> -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
Current thread:
- Upstream BGP community support Andy B. (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Jeffrey Lyon (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Andy B. (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Christopher Morrow (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Randy Bush (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support jim deleskie (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Randy Bush (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support jim deleskie (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Andy B. (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Paul Wall (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Dorian Kim (Oct 31)
- Re: Upstream BGP community support Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 31)