Communities

Thu Nov 6 04:16:48 UTC 1997

On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, James A. Farrar wrote:

> >It would seem to me to be helpful when coming up with
> >policy to route traffic bound for internal/customer
> >networks of an upstream to that upstream (unless that link
> >is down).  Sometimes the path selection does not allow
> >this and we are forced to use foolish kludges like
> >as path prepending and other neanderthalic clubbings.
> >
> MCI offers announcemnets of:
> 
> Backbone Routes
> Customer Routes
> Customer Routes - w/MED
> Full Routes
> Full Routes - w/MED

Here is the kicker: How about Full Routes with Backbone and Customer
Routes tagged with a community denoting their status?

Bradley