Re: Best Practices - BGP community to signal transit announces.

[Andy Davidson <andy () nosignal org>]

On 23/01/2010 17:51, Patrick Tracanelli wrote:
> I am acting as transit for a number of ASNs, and my upstream peers do
> filter my announces (as they should as I understand).

Absolutely.

> Is there any best practices or RFC which shall suggest how this
> community should be set up? Say, while I do standardize this community
> to be MY-ASN:1 or MY-ASN:65501, is there a difference? Which community
> numbers should be used for this purpose, if there are any best practice
> for this?

This is a really bad idea, if you tag your customers' prefixes with a 
'do transit' community, then the customer leaks, you will tag the extra 
prefixes, and leak via your transit too.

You must filter your customers based on the data that they put into an 
agreed RPSL database, and then your transit provider should filter you 
on the same basis.

Some people shuffle static prefix lists to negotiate their prefix 
filters.  Life is too short for this though.  Let computers and 
databases do the work for you.


Andy Davidson // www.netsumo.com