I've been trying to make use of these 6500N:XXX community strings on a Sprint BGP session with no results. After dealing with 3 different Sprint IP engineers, I'm convinced none of them understands the following info from the Sprint web site. I'd like to hear from a Sprint routing engineer who can either help me get this working or tell me it's no longer supported. All responses from bgp4-adm@sprint.net and phone calls to the Sprint IP NOC have been comical at best and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of route-maps and communities at worst. I won't embarrass them by including any of their responses. If you're a Sprint customer utilizing these communities, I wouldn't mind hearing from you as well, especially if you know what hoop has to be jumped through to get Sprint to accept and act on these communities. [from http://www.sprint.net/policy/bgp.html] AS-PATH PREPENDS Sprint allows customers to use AS-path prepending to adjust route preference on the network. Such prepending will be received and passed on properly without notifiying Sprint of your change in announcments. Additionally, Sprint will prepend AS1239 to eBGP sessions with certain autonomous systems depending on a received community. String Resulting AS Path to ASXXX 65000:XXX Do not advertise to ASXXX 65001:XXX 1239 (default) ... 65002:XXX 1239 1239 ... 65003:XXX 1239 1239 1239 ... 65004:XXX 1239 1239 1239 1239 ... This is my second attempt to send this message. Majordomo seems to have either eaten my first message or bounced it to the moderator(s). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
I've been trying to make use of these 6500N:XXX community strings on a Sprint BGP session with no results.
I doubt there is a need to contact Sprint unless they manage your router(s). Just configure the route map(s), make sure the neighbour session is configured to send communities, you've got the community command in the global config and reset your BGP session. You'll be able to tell if it has worked or not. Tim
TT> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:18:16 GMT TT> From: Tim Thorne TT> I doubt there is a need to contact Sprint unless they manage TT> your router(s). Just configure the route map(s), make sure TT> the neighbour session is configured to send communities, TT> you've got the community command in the global config and Unless Sprint were filtering certain community ranges. That said, they do not seem to be... I added a few selective prepends today which have taken effect. 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.
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