[nsp] BGP community issue or provider issue?

[jlewis@lewis.org]

Many times.  I even resorted to resetting the connection once just in case 
this router wasn't doing the right thing with soft out.

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Harold Ritter wrote:

> 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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