[nsp] BGP community issue or provider issue?

[Harold Ritter]

Jon,

Have you tried forcing the outbound updates to go through the newly policy 
with the following commned:

clear ip bgp <neighbor address> soft outbound.


BTW: resetting the connection will do it to but is more intrusive.

At 08:21 AM 9/14/2002 -0400, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Arie Vayner wrote:
>
> > You are right, there is no need in a match line. Ignoring it just executes
> > the set commands on everything.
> > What you are doing is perfectly correct, assuming the community has any
> > meaning to the provider.
> >
> > What does the filter list filter? Maybe this is the problem?
>
>The filter list is just a small as-path access-list that only allows
>routes with certain as-paths (i.e. no path, or a few ^_(customer-as_)+$)
>to be advertised to the transit providers.
>
>The same filter list is applied to the uunet session, and doesn't cause
>any problems with communities on that one.
>
>I guess it's time to post to nanog looking for a Sprint routing engineer
>with clue.  I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something first.
>
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