Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 23:16:20 -0400 (EDT) From: jlewis
Speaking of special...having played around a little with the BGP communities supported by C&W and Sprint, I'm wondering which other big transit providers (it seems almost a waste to say Tier 1 anymore) support community strings that will let you (the customer) cause them to selectively prepend route announcements to their peers.
1239, 3356, 3549, 3561 Other than that, I don't know of any positives. I was going to compile a list and make a webpage... but I've had underwhelming response to past posts on the subject. 4006 used to; I don't know what 174/4006/16631 does now.
This seems to be a really handy tool for balancing (or at least trying to balance) traffic across multiple transit providers without having to resort to the sort of all or nothing results you'd get by prepending your announcements to the transit provider, or worse, deaggregating your IP space for traffic engineering.
Yes. Also handy for tuning latency/paths.
AFAIK, Genuity does not have this.
I believe this is the case for 1, 209, 2914, 7018. My experience with 6347 has been "you want prepends, you do 'em yourself".
If there are others that support the sort of flexibility of Sprint and C&W, and have decent T3 level pricing, I'd like to hear about/from them.
I should have a link/email with 3549 communities... somewhere. They also have a nice set of tags indicating where the route originated (dowstream, public peer, etc.; US city, international) that help outbound traffic. Kevin Epperson is the person to contact for L3 info. He monitors NANOG-L, so you should hear from him... ping me for his email addr if not. Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.