Re: [apops] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra Community support

[Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:09:56AM +1000, Phillip Grasso-Nguyen wrote:
> > Can you define your meaning of the following phrases?
> >
> > - 'does not want to support'
> > - 'transitive communities'
> Simple, Telstra (AS1221), will not pass on communities set by it's customers
> and peers to any other customers, peers, and upstreams.
> 
> > - 'large'
> hmmmm, "large" is ones own perception (if something thinks they are large,
> then so be it). But normally a good reference is apnic membership status or
> something like that.
> > - 'by choice'
> By the own preference, a Telstra POLICY.
> 
> This makes passing bgp communities to other networks via Telstra impossible.
> Specifically if you want to do things similar RFC1998+ or setting remote
> policies via communites on your own network, or to someone elses.

I'm not actually aware of any transit ASN anywhere that will propagate
communities set by customers to peers, other customers or upstream ASes.
I'm sure there are some, but none of the networks I have worked with
will do this.

What are you trying to achieve?


Joe
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