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Re: What's the point of prepend communities?
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:09:46 -0400
On Oct 26, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Job Snijders <job () ntt net> wrote: If Network B offers some kind of “Prepend to Network C” BGP community, network A will be able to utilize all of network B except the pieces that perform less well. (This is ofcourse assuming that Network C picks some alternative path because of the prepends)
Absolutely. I understand the "Prepend to Network blah” use case. The case I don’t get is where the ISP makes no distinction in their policy document about how the prepending of their own AS is applied to their upstream announcements, implying that it’s announced to everyone.
Current thread:
- What's the point of prepend communities? Jason Lixfeld (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? William Herrin (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Jason Lixfeld (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Christopher Morrow (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Job Snijders (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Jason Lixfeld (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Rob Foehl (Oct 28)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Jason Lixfeld (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? William Herrin (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? William Herrin (Oct 26)
- RE: What's the point of prepend communities? Naslund, Steve (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? William Herrin (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Brett Frankenberger (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Steve Dodd (Oct 28)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Leo Bicknell (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Clinton Work (Oct 26)
- RE: What's the point of prepend communities? Naslund, Steve (Oct 26)
- Re: What's the point of prepend communities? Leo Bicknell (Oct 30)