Quick poll: does any operator here currently use a router which does not support setting BGP community attributes, does not permit community attributes to be matched exactly when doing ingress/egress route filtering, or does not permit wildcard matches on the last two octets (e.g. "permit 1234:*")? If any of those statements apply to a BGP implementation you have used, could you let me know? Off-list is fine. I can summarise the results if there is interest. Joe