Re: Best practices for BGP Communities

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:53 PM Randy Bush wrote: > > How does one distinguish "informational" and "action" of unknown > > communities? > > "if the community is unknown why would you take any action except to strip it?" > the action ones are divisible by 3 > > > > you are in a twisty maze

Re: Best practices for BGP Communities

> How does one distinguish "informational" and "action" of unknown > communities? the action ones are divisible by 3 you are in a twisty maze where there are no formnally defined semantics, only a #:# syntax. if there were general formal semantics, it could have been put directly in bgp

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Re: Best practices for BGP Communities

On 04.03.2019 19:15, John Kristoff wrote: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 01:42:02 + > Joshua Miller wrote: > >> A while back I read somewhere that transit providers shouldn't delete >> communities unless the communities have a specific impact to their >> network, but my google-fu is failing me and I

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Re: Arista Layer3

Agreed. On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 2:16 AM Brandon Martin wrote: > On 3/6/19 12:36 AM, Colton Conor wrote: > > How much do these boxes cost? > > List is about $100k in North America for a 9640 with all the ports > "unlocked", full hardware kit (PSUs, fans, etc.) and some > maintenance/support.

Re: Best practices for BGP Communities

Thanks for all the feedback. Follow up questions: How does one distinguish "informational" and "action" of unknown communities? Also, why would a transit provider go out of their way to remove unknown communities that don't have any meaning within their network? What benefit would it serve the

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Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

On 6/Mar/19 08:38, Fernando Gont wrote: > > RFC4821 seems to signal that the IETF has given up in making ICMP-based > PMTUD work, and aims at a (mostly) ICMP-free PMTUD. As much as I hate to admit it, I think this is a more realistic approach. Mark.

Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6 - Update!

On 6/Mar/19 08:29, Mark Andrews wrote: > Make a big enough stink and it will get fixed. People just don’t make enough > of > a stink. Use social media. None of the companies with broken firewalls > really > want their idiotic practices pointed out in public. Start doing so every time >

Re: Arista Layer3

On 3/6/19 12:36 AM, Colton Conor wrote: How much do these boxes cost? List is about $100k in North America for a 9640 with all the ports "unlocked", full hardware kit (PSUs, fans, etc.) and some maintenance/support. Take whatever your standard Brocade/Extreme discount from that tends to

Re: Arista Layer3

On 3/6/19 3:05 AM, Dmitry Sherman wrote: Is there any reason to have 2M routes support for next 3 years? Full IPv4 table + full IPv6 table + multiple VRFs (BGP-VPN, etc.) plus lots of on-net deaggregates could well push you above 1M right now especially if your platform also shares that "1M"

Re: Arista Layer3

Is there any reason to have 2M routes support for next 3 years? -- Dmitry Sherman Interhost Networks Ltd dmi...@interhost.net Mobile: +972-54-3181182 Office: +972-74-7029881 Web: www.interhost.co.il From: NANOG on behalf of Roel Parijs Date: Wednesday, 6 March