[eix-wg] "advertise to all" BGP community

On 23.03.2012 18:16 Andy Davidson wrote

> 
> On 23 Mar 2012, at 17:03, Matjaž Straus Istenič wrote:
> 
>> we are putting a couple of Bird route servers with an IXP manager front-end to Slovenian internet exchange (SIX). At route servers, we are using the well known model for BGP communities:
>> 
>> block announcement of a route to a certain peer  0:peer-as
>> announcement of a route to a certain peer        ix-as:peer-as
>> block announcement of a route to all peers       0:ix-as
>> announcement of a route to all peers             ix-as:ix-as
>> 
>> How do you handle the announcements with no community set? Do you request that "announcement of a route to all peers" is set in order to announce the prefixes from your IXP route servers?
> 
> At LONAP, if no community is set, we send to all (duplicate the logic of ix-as:ix-as).
> 

Same at DE-CIX


Arnold
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