Re: HE.net and BGP Communities

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

You always want to prefer customer routes over non customer routes as a service provider. Of course having a robust set 
of communities to let adjustments happen helps. 

Without proper tiering of routes you may see unstable routing. 

Having a standard set of customer, peer, transit set of local preferences would go a long way. Same for geographic 
scope of routes, only use these on same continent. Makes using a provider if you do something like anycast hard if they 
haul you long distance.  

- Jared 

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> On Jul 25, 2022, at 6:49 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <lists () packetflux com> wrote:
>
> 
> I wish they'd add one more that turns off their "prefer routes learned from a customer" rule.   I'm having to split 
> my blocks in half and announce them that way to get them to send my traffic directly to me through our IX peering 
> session as opposed to one of my transit providers.
>
> I'd rather they just let shortest path selection work. 
>
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 1:43 PM Siyuan Miao <aveline () misaka io> wrote:
> > They do have BGP communities ... but for black-hole only :-(
> >
> > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 9:39 PM Ryan Hamel <administrator () rkhtech org> wrote:
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+ryan=rkhtech.org () nanog org> On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2022 12:36 PM
> > > To: Nanog <nanog () nanog org>
> > > Subject: HE.net and BGP Communities
> > >
> > > The last mention I found on NANOG about HE.net and BGP communities for traffic engineering is from April 2021 and 
> > > said they provided none.
> > >
> > > Is that still the case a year later ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Rubens