[eix-wg] "advertise to all" BGP community

Hi Matjaž, group,

On 23.03.12 18:03, Matjaž Straus Istenič wrote:
> Dear group,
> 
> we are putting a couple of Bird route servers with an IXP manager front-end to Slovenian internet exchange (SIX). At route servers, we are using the well known model for BGP communities:
> 
> block announcement of a route to a certain peer  0:peer-as
> announcement of a route to a certain peer        ix-as:peer-as
> block announcement of a route to all peers       0:ix-as
> announcement of a route to all peers             ix-as:ix-as
> 
> How do you handle the announcements with no community set? 

While we do not use communities to handle the announcements at VIX I
wonder how you handle 32-bit as-numbers?

regards,
Harald


> Do you request that "announcement of a route to all peers" is set in order to announce the prefixes from your IXP route servers?
> 
> I will appreciate your feedback, thank you.
> Kind regards,
> 	Matjaž
> 
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