On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jeremy Hinton wrote:
I'm just wondering if many providers are seeing/doing this already, as systems like this could seem to give the end customer quite a bit more control of not only how outcoming traffic flows, but incoming as well (quite possibly at the price of some redundency). Are many providers negotiable to creating and accepting communities from downstream customers?
MCI sets local preference based on community attributes. See <http://infopage.mci.net/Routing/communities.html> for details. Sprint does the same (on an experimental base, better check if applied to your BGP), using community attribute values 1239:70, 1239:80 and 1239:90. __ Pierre Thibaudeau | e-mail: <prt@Teleglobe.CA> TELEGLOBE CANADA | 1000, rue de La Gauchetiere ouest | Tel: +1-514-868-7257 Montreal, QC H3B 4X5 | Canada | fax: +1-514-868-8446