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Re: Communities


From: Bradley Dunn <bradley () dunn org>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:16:48 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, James A. Farrar wrote:

It would seem to me to be helpful when coming up with
policy to route traffic bound for internal/customer
networks of an upstream to that upstream (unless that link
is down).  Sometimes the path selection does not allow
this and we are forced to use foolish kludges like
as path prepending and other neanderthalic clubbings.

MCI offers announcemnets of:

Backbone Routes
Customer Routes
Customer Routes - w/MED
Full Routes
Full Routes - w/MED

Here is the kicker: How about Full Routes with Backbone and Customer
Routes tagged with a community denoting their status?

Bradley



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