Upstream BGP community support

Sat Oct 31 20:45:09 UTC 2009

We have transit through Peer1 and Telia, both accept communities. I
wouldn't consider buying from someone who didn't.

Jeff

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Andy B. <globichen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question: Would you buy transit from someone who does not
> support BGP communities?
>
> Here is the story:
>
> My company is pushing several GBit/s through various upstream
> providers. We have reached the point where we rely on BGP communitiy
> support, especially communities that can be sent to the upstream to
> change the way he announces our prefixes to his peers/transits.
>
> While most decent upstream providers support this kind of traffic
> engineering, one of them refuses to send and accept BGP communities. I
> tried to contact my upstream several times through different channels
> to get some background as to why they would not be able to provide us
> this service, but all we get is tickets that get closed without an
> answer. Management itself does not seem to bother either.
>
> Is this normal or is it too much to ask for BGP communities from an
> upstream who has points of presence in the US, Europe and Asia?
>
>
> Andy
>
>

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