On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com> wrote:

Being the architect/head-nerd-in-charge of a fairly new network.....

Not reading ras's HOWTOs and others is suicide.... There's no excuse... It really makes running your network easier.. If my customer needs to prepend X to Y transit/peer/customer or not announce to them at 3am, that means they don't have to call me...

That's exactly what I expect from a decent upstream. So far all our upstreams (Level3, Cogent, Tata), with the exception of HE, provide this service. I don't even care about receiving their communities which describe where the prefix has been injected, since I can handle outbound traffic more or less myself. It's a nice-to-have feature though. It's the inbound that I cannot control without a little help from my upstreams, hence our desperate need to send BGP communities. Andy