Regarding global BGP community values

Fri Oct 8 13:33:59 UTC 1999

> > Here is a sketch of the new well-known communities I have come
> > up with:
> > 
> > 0xFFFn:arg
> 
> You should attempt to implement it; I suspect that its not going
> to be easy.
> 
> If you want this to go forward, I suggest that you draft configs
> for a number of router types (cisco, juniper, gated).
> 
> I also suggest that you draft configs for everyone else to do if
> they just want to let these new communities through without acting
> on them.  Remember that communities are dropped by default - unless
> you configure your routers to let them through.
More and more ISP allow communities through; and anyway the idead to allow
the couter treat some part of community as an _arg_ is a very interesting
(at least for the future implementations and/or protocols).


> 	--asp at partan.com (Andrew Partan)
> 
> 

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