This is a good discussion. I'll add it to our upcoming agenda to review in
addition to our discussion here.
I, too, am in favor of the community strings.
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On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Jeremy Lumby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I would like to voice my opinion in support of community strings. I had 2
> incidents a while ago where a member connected to the route server had a
> saturated link. It was impacting the quality of my customers
> connectivity. I wish I had the ability to just not announce to the one
> member, instead of the all or nothing option we currently have with the
> route servers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Doug McIntyre
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 5:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] Route Server Announcement Control?
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:19:16PM +0000, Charles Monson wrote:
> > Do the MICE route servers offer any way to control BGP announcement to
> specific peers? I didn't see anything on the micemn.net website about
> ways to do that. With some of the larger content providers connecting to
> the exchange, the folks who have mostly inbound traffic might want a way to
> stop the route servers announcements to those potentially high traffic
> peers without entirely withdrawing advertisements to the route servers.
> >
> > Some of the other exchanges we connect at let you send a community
> indicating the ASN you don't want your prefixes advertisements to reach
> (e.g. you send a community of "0:11796" to stop the route servers from
> advertising your prefixes to Airstream). It would be nice to have something
> similar at MICE. Is this something already supported that I missed? Or
> something that may be considered as a future feature?
>
>
> We do not have any community filters setup currently.
>
> BIRD supports communities and filtering, but nobody has asked about it
> prior to now.
>
> It looks like a huge example is at
>
> http://download.de-cix.net/bird.conf.gz
>
> Useful for others?
>
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> Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]
> >
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