The way I see this implementation, this is not really a transitive
community. The values are consumed within the local AS, and then a new
community is generated, based on accumulated values, at the AS boundary.

Tnx
Arie

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 2:52 PM Jeff Tantsura <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Arie,
>
> The way the draft reads, it is quite clear that IANA allocated Link
> Bandwidth Ext. Community (0x4004) should be used (and formally changed to
> transitive), I'd be rather surprised if it is not the case ( that would
> make implementations non interoperable).
> I'm in the process of reviewing all existing implementations and will come
> back on this one. Implementers - please do respond (FRR incl)
> Practically  - if there's wg consensus (I don't think this is needed,
> given there's a number of working implementations) to use a new extended
> community the document should become standard track with the formal IANA
> allocation request.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 1:16 PM Arie Vayner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Actually, the way this draft is written, and how the implementations I'm
>> aware of are implemented, this is not really a transitive community. It is
>> a new community that is being generated on the AS boundary.
>> The community value is not carried over, but is calculated based on an
>> cumulative value of other received communities, and then advertised as a
>> new value across the AS boundary.
>>
>> Tnx,
>> Arie
>>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:55 PM Jeff Tantsura <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I support adoption of the draft as Informational, please note, that
>>> request to change transitivity characteristics of the community is
>>> requested in another draft.
>>> Gyan  - please note, while pretty much every vendor has implemented the
>>> community and relevant data-plane constructs, initial draft defines the
>>> community as non transititive, some vendors have followed that while some
>>> other have implemented it a transitive (to support obvious use case - eBGP
>>> in DC).
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff
>>> On May 22, 2021, 8:38 AM -0700, Satya Mohanty (satyamoh) <satyamoh=
>>> [email protected]>, wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On behalf of all the authors, we request a discussion of the draft
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mohanty-bess-ebgp-dmz-03
>>>  and subsequent WG adoption.
>>>
>>> This draft extends the usage of the DMZ link bandwidth to scenarios
>>> where the cumulative link bandwidth needs to be advertised to a BGP speaker.
>>>
>>> Additionally, there is provision to send the link bandwidth extended
>>> community to EBGP speakers via configurable knobs. Please refer to section
>>> 3 and 4 for the use cases.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This feature has multiple-vendor implementations and has been deployed
>>> by several customers in their networks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> --Satya
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> BESS mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bess
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> BESS mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bess
>>>
>>
_______________________________________________
BESS mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bess

Reply via email to