Verizon MPLS / BGP help needed
Hello, In my experience, all MPLS providers allow their customers to influence their own BGP route metrics by sending community values to the provider, with the provider adjusting metrics (such as local preference), based on these BGP communities (reference = http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example0918...). I sent a simple request to our Verizon reps, asking for the community syntax required to perform this task on a Verizon MPLS network. I expected a list of acceptable communities in the form of ASN:xxx (example: 65000:120 to set local preference to 120). My contacts at Verizon are insisting that this “feature” is not available and will not be available until September 2013! From my perspective, they are basically telling me that we are not allowed to enforce our own route policy on our own network. If someone from Verizon is able to help, I would appreciate an offline response. Thank you! Bill
This might be a starting point: http://onesc.net/communities/as701/ Not sure if it's accurate, as we don't have AS701 transit... Regards, Chris Rogers CEO, Inerail +1.302.357.3696 x2110 http://inerail.net/ On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Bill Ingrum <wingrum@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
In my experience, all MPLS providers allow their customers to influence their own BGP route metrics by sending community values to the provider, with the provider adjusting metrics (such as local preference), based on these BGP communities (reference = http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example0918... ).
I sent a simple request to our Verizon reps, asking for the community syntax required to perform this task on a Verizon MPLS network. I expected a list of acceptable communities in the form of ASN:xxx (example: 65000:120 to set local preference to 120).
My contacts at Verizon are insisting that this “feature” is not available and will not be available until September 2013! From my perspective, they are basically telling me that we are not allowed to enforce our own route policy on our own network.
If someone from Verizon is able to help, I would appreciate an offline response.
Thank you!
Bill
he needs the info for the PIP (Private IP) network though, which isn't covered in 701/2/3's data... the PIP network probably does NOT have this sort of capability, essentially the users are on their own to do some bgp policy on their side of the fence, since the MPLS network is enclosed and doesn't route to anything but 'you'... On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Chris Rogers <crogers@inerail.net> wrote:
This might be a starting point: http://onesc.net/communities/as701/
Not sure if it's accurate, as we don't have AS701 transit...
Regards, Chris Rogers CEO, Inerail +1.302.357.3696 x2110 http://inerail.net/
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Bill Ingrum <wingrum@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
In my experience, all MPLS providers allow their customers to influence their own BGP route metrics by sending community values to the provider, with the provider adjusting metrics (such as local preference), based on these BGP communities (reference = http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example0918... ).
I sent a simple request to our Verizon reps, asking for the community syntax required to perform this task on a Verizon MPLS network. I expected a list of acceptable communities in the form of ASN:xxx (example: 65000:120 to set local preference to 120).
My contacts at Verizon are insisting that this “feature” is not available and will not be available until September 2013! From my perspective, they are basically telling me that we are not allowed to enforce our own route policy on our own network.
If someone from Verizon is able to help, I would appreciate an offline response.
Thank you!
Bill
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