Regarding global BGP community values

Fri Oct 8 10:49:30 UTC 1999

Aleks Suhonen wrote:

>Here is a sketch of the new well-known communities I have come
>up with:
>
>0xFFFn:arg
...
> n=0    Never  announce to AS <arg>.
...

Not a bad idea but how would you strip out the "arg" portion of the
community value for use in your route maps (on a cisco that is)? Is this
currently possible, or are you proposing that vendors (who can't already do
this) upgrade their implementation in newer code versions?

Robin Hayden