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Doug & Chih, Thanks for your efforts on this. Mike H, can you post to MICE-ANNOUNCE? And maybe we can convince Richard to throw up a section on the micemn.net technical page that lists the communities? :) Thanks guys. ~Matthew On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks to Chih Chen's help at the U of Wisc, I have testing done for > phase1 of the BGP communities exporting that have been requested. > (Phase2 would be doing prepends, but I'll have to lab up that > functionality as I saw the export function grow 10 times or so before I > stopped). > Most of the delay was waiting for others to test with me. > > I plan on implementing this MICE site wide on Sunday, 5/22/2016, starting > at > around 10:00PM - 11:59PM. > > All the testing looked good to us during testing, the functions > behaved as expected. This function is an expansion of what was tested > before. > ipHouse has had this export function on it since the end of winter. > > It is written to properly handle 32-bit ASNs (I believe, that part was > provided > by the BIRD WIKI author). And of course IPv4 and IPv6 make no difference. > > The communities supported by this setup will include > > 0:peerAS -- Don't export route prefix to this peer. > 53679:peerAS -- Always export route prefix to this peer. > 0:53679 -- Don't export route prefix to all MICE peers. > > > The steps of actually implementing this would be non-eventful, but I know > some will want to drop for it. > > > > ALSO, we really should upgrade the OS that is running the route > servers too. So I'll be doing OS updates and other upgrades that will > upgrade BIRD as well in the same window. BIRD moves from > 1.4.5 -> 1.5.0. The release notes say it mostly is OSPF changes, > I expect no problems in this update, BIRD has been very stable, and the OS > has been stable in production use here. > > Thanks. > > -- > Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> > ~.~ ipHouse ~.~ > Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades >