On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 23:00, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
We are running a small IX fabric (in Mumbai, India) and with multiple route servers based on a bird. There has been a demand of support of BGP communities from some of our members and I am trying to find a way to set it up in the bird. Idea is to provide a community say 0:123 where tagged routes with 0:123 do not reach AS123. I am new to the bird.
I strongly recommend to either use “arouteserver” or “IXP manager” to generate the BIRD configuration files on your behalf, and no type it by hand. Setting up a fully featured secure route server is a lot of work and research, I’d really recommend to leverage the work others have done in this problem space. I fear otherwise you may risk repeating mistakes that others already made. https://arouteserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver https://www.ixpmanager.org/ And using these automated tools means less work for the IX operator. Turning up new peers is a breeze with both tools! Kind regards, Job