Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Jan/20 16:52, James Jun wrote: > I see. LOCAL_PREF and RFC 1998 style of community attributes however are > not the right tool for signalling exit locations -- it does not scale. > Sure, it's a useful hammer to hard enforce a baseline mode of preference > on given route (e.g. route of la

RE: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread adamv0025
> From: Saku Ytti > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 1:09 PM > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 14:46, wrote: > > > Other might be: “These experimental work is of great value to the > community and there’s a process now to announce and manage these > experiments, what about net neutrality, and besides

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread James Jun
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 04:36:29PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > We provide customers with a ton of LOCAL_PREF options they can activate > in our network via communities: > > http://as37100.net/?bgp > > As I mentioned to Saku re: the ORIGIN attribute, I don't mind customers > using this on us si

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Jan/20 16:26, James Jun wrote: > > I get that you'd want to reset MED on peering sessions, but any particular > rationale on why you'd rewrite MED to 0 on customer sessions? > > I would argue that providing the ability for customers to transfer backhaul > costs onto their transit provider

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Jan/20 15:49, Saku Ytti wrote: > > If you reset MED in effort to stop me from transferring my > infrastructure costs to your network, I can still set origin and force > cold potato in your network. Okay, I see how this could be abused in a scenario where you have multiple peering location

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread James Jun
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:06:45PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > From our side, on peering links, re-write all MED to 0 and scrubs all > communities, and replace them with our own. > > On customer links, we re-write MED to 0. [ snip ] I get that you'd want to reset MED on peering sessions, but

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 15:24, Mark Tinka wrote: > Hmmh, now I'm curious... please explain why rewriting MED but not ORIGIN > doesn't help. If you reset MED in effort to stop me from transferring my infrastructure costs to your network, I can still set origin and force cold potato in your network.

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Jan/20 15:12, Saku Ytti wrote: > > If you rewrite MED but not origin, then you're not really > accomplishing anything. Hmmh, now I'm curious... please explain why rewriting MED but not ORIGIN doesn't help. Mark.

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 15:09, Mark Tinka wrote: > From our side, on peering links, re-write all MED to 0 and scrubs all > communities, and replace them with our own. If you rewrite MED, you SHOULD rewrite origin (which RFC prohibits, incorrectly). I can understand rationale for rewriting MED, yo

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Saku Ytti
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 14:46, wrote: > Other might be: “These experimental work is of great value to the community > and there’s a process now to announce and manage these experiments, what > about net neutrality, and besides modern BGP implementations should handle > well formatted attributes

Re: BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/Jan/20 14:44, adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: > Would like to gather current views of a wider community on BGP Path > Attribute Filtering (discarding selected attributes in particular, not > treat as withdraw) as an addition to the long list of standard > conditioning tools like max as-

BGP Path Attribute Filtering, YES or NO?

2020-01-08 Thread adamv0025
Would like to gather current views of a wider community on BGP Path Attribute Filtering (discarding selected attributes in particular, not treat as withdraw) as an addition to the long list of standard conditioning tools like max as-path length limit, limiting number of communities all the way to r