BGP communities and customers

Wed May 7 17:23:42 UTC 1997

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jeremy Hinton wrote:

>    	I'm just wondering if many providers are seeing/doing this 
>    already, as systems like this could seem to give the end customer quite a 
>    bit more control of not only how outcoming traffic flows, but incoming as 
>    well (quite possibly at the price of some redundency). Are many providers 
>    negotiable to creating and accepting communities from downstream customers?

MCI sets local preference based on community attributes. See
<http://infopage.mci.net/Routing/communities.html> for details. Sprint
does the same (on an experimental base, better check if applied to your
BGP), using community attribute values 1239:70, 1239:80 and 1239:90. 

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