Transitive BGP Communities

Randy Bush

Table of Contents

• Slides from this Talk
• Stan Barber's Notes
• June 1997 NANOG Home Page

Stan Barber's Notes

What are BGP Communities?

I can mark routes to indicate how your learned it and then send this to relevant folks.

I can also use these mechanisms to influence how the neighbor deals with routes relating to other peers.

Filtering may be necessary to insure that the influence offered by others is reasonable and rational.