HE.net and BGP Communities

Mon Jul 25 16:18:04 UTC 2022

On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 17:19, Brian Turnbow via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> >I do understand the reasoning behind preferring customer routes.   However in the case where a customer of a customer also connects to you directly via peering doesn't it make sense to prefer the direct connection?  or at >least not prefer the customer learned routes.
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> Business not technical. Fill up the bandwidth and they will buy more!!
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> >In our situation, we were buying transit, heavily prepended, from a provider on a tiny circuit.   The purpose of the transit was related to another service we were acquiring from that provider and wasn't about the transit, but >the  transit was needed for the service to work reliably.   Unfortunately this provider was also a HE customer and so we now had all of the HE traffic coming down this tiny link, since all of our other transit providers and >ourselves only peered with HE.
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> >I don't remember why,  but we couldn't have the transit provider not announce our routes toward HE, so we ended up doing the announce more specifics everywhere else thing.   Which I hate doing on so many levels.
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> >Thus the desire for a community to tell HE that although they learned this route from a customer, it is not a customer route.
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> You can use communities to set the local preference with HE.
> This should do the trick
>   6730:0008       set local pref to 64   (lowest they have afaik)

Google has let you down, 6730 (sunrise) is not 6939 (HE) ;)

Afaik HE does not provide TE communities.

Lukas