This is a good discussion. I'll add it to our upcoming agenda to review in addition to our discussion here. I, too, am in favor of the community strings. s On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Jeremy Lumby <jlumby@mnvoip.com> wrote:
I would like to voice my opinion in support of community strings. I had 2 incidents a while ago where a member connected to the route server had a saturated link. It was impacting the quality of my customers connectivity. I wish I had the ability to just not announce to the one member, instead of the all or nothing option we currently have with the route servers.
-----Original Message----- From: MICE Discuss [mailto:MICE-DISCUSS@LISTS.IPHOUSE.NET <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Doug McIntyre Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 5:52 PM To: MICE-DISCUSS@LISTS.IPHOUSE.NET <javascript:;> Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] Route Server Announcement Control?
Do the MICE route servers offer any way to control BGP announcement to specific peers? I didn't see anything on the micemn.net website about ways to do that. With some of the larger content providers connecting to
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:19:16PM +0000, Charles Monson wrote: the exchange, the folks who have mostly inbound traffic might want a way to stop the route servers announcements to those potentially high traffic peers without entirely withdrawing advertisements to the route servers.
Some of the other exchanges we connect at let you send a community
indicating the ASN you don't want your prefixes advertisements to reach (e.g. you send a community of "0:11796" to stop the route servers from advertising your prefixes to Airstream). It would be nice to have something similar at MICE. Is this something already supported that I missed? Or something that may be considered as a future feature?
We do not have any community filters setup currently.
BIRD supports communities and filtering, but nobody has asked about it prior to now.
It looks like a huge example is at
http://download.de-cix.net/bird.conf.gz
Useful for others?
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