My company has a small network of a few thousand customers and some internal stuff. We also buy VPN services from a large tier 1 provider. I can tell you from experience that the guidelines depend on your carrier and what business relationship you have with them. (read $$$)
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 27, 2011, at 11:55 AM, danger will <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Keegan > > Ok thanks was intersted mostly to see how people who run vpn mpls networks do > regarding this. > > --- On Sun, 2/27/11, Keegan Holley <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Keegan Holley <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] bgp communities over vpn mpls > To: "danger will" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 6:44 PM > > It depends on the provider. Extended communities are also used in vpn/vrf > route filters so honoring any community already seen on a customer route is > dangerous. It's easier to remove all customer communities at the edge so > some providers probably do that as. Others may allow specific values for > specific reasons the same way internet providers will allow customers to > prepend and increase local-pref by sending communities. The best thing is to > consult your specific provider. > > > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, danger will <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello List, > > Lets say the customer wants to use his own bgp communities over a vpn mpls > service. > Prefixes from one site are market with some communities , and those > communities have an action at another site. The question is are these > communities maintained over the vpn mpls service or is there any reason for > them to be deleted by the mpls provider ? > > Thank you very much > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
