[OCCAID] Communities question

[Peter Salanki]

Well, I get that part. But the difference between the two stated is 
what I don't get :)


2005-01-15 kl. 09.59 skrev Michael Nicks:

> On 01/15/05 09:29:30 +0100, Peter Salanki wrote:
>> What does the Member ("Customer") Communities Identifier
>> Community do? (i.e. 30071:3010). I thought it was the same as OCCAID
>> Originated Communities Identifier
>> Community at first sight.
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>> /Peter Salanki
>> Port80 AB (AS16150)
>
> To my understanding, it is to tag incoming routes received from a peer
> with a certain community to make it easy to locate where a route 
> originated
> from. E.g, Sprint transit routes are tagged with 30071:2300,
>
> route-views.occaid.org> sh bgp community 30071:2300
> BGP table version is 0, local router ID is 65.126.230.78
> Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - 
> internal
> Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
>
>    Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
> *  2001:220::/32    2001:4830::4                           0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 9270 i
> *                   2001:4830::5                           0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 9270 i
> *                   2001:4830:1::1                         0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 9270 i
> *                   2001:4830::3             1             0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 9270 i
> *>                  2001:4830::2             0             0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 9270 i
> *                   2001:4830::1             0             0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 9270 i
> *  2001:230::/35    2001:4830::4                           0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 i
> *                   2001:4830::5                           0 30071 
> 6175 4725 3748 i
> [snip - etc]
>
> -M
>
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