BGP TTL

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Martin, Christian wrote:
> > Only if your neighbor listens to communities & does not strip any
> > that they recieve.  [Someone at lunch mentioned one ISP that wanted
> > a guarentee that their neighbor would not propogate some routes &
> > did not want to rely on setting no-export as that breaks too often.]
> 
> Perhaps communities should become mandatory transitive attributes?  

Not sure if that's a good idea.  Communities can clash, and they often 
only make sense if explicitly configured to do so.

It definitely doesn't sound good to accumulate all the communities from
along the AS-PATH of e.g. length 10 at the last AS.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords