[OCCAID] Communities question

[Neil]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:48:17AM -0500, James wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:01:08PM +0100, Peter Salanki wrote:
> > Well, I get that part. But the difference between the two stated is 
> > what I don't get :)
> 
> 30071:3000 identifies Customer community in general..
> 
> Then we have location code for customers...
> 
> 3010 means originated from ZOA (San Francisco/Oakland area).
> 3020 means originated from ZBW (Boston area).
> 
> and so on and so forth as listed in http://www.occaid.org/occaid-bgp.html
> 
> Same story with 9xxxx. 9000 identifies internal originated.
> Then 9010, 9020, etc are location codes.
> 
> Does this help you? :) Let me know if not..
> 
> -J

i think you misunderstood what Peter is asking.

30071:9000 originated community desigates routes that are announced by an
AS30071 router in its bgp configuration for internal use. example for this
can be 2001:4830::/32 and 3ffe:401d::/32

30071:3000 community desigates routes that service a downstream customer.


	-ndf