[nsp] BGP community issue or provider issue?

[jlewis@lewis.org]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 MPuras@solunet.com wrote:

> If you issue a "show ip bgp neighbor x.x.x.x" do you see were it shows you
> that the community was sent to that neighbor?  It should say "community
> attribute sent to this neighbor".  If is being sent, they should then be
> able to issue a "show ip bgp x.x.x.x" and tell if the route came accross
> with that community.

  Community attribute sent to this neighbor
yep.

> It could also be that they are looking at the old decimal community format
> and not necessarily the new format in which case they would need use the "ip
> bgp-community new-format".

I had turned that on as it makes looking at the config much easier.  I
suspect it only affects how the community values are displayed in the CLI,
not how they're 'seen by the router'.  For the hell of it, I turned it 
off, which turned all the NNNNN:NNNN format strings into large negative 
numbers in the CLI.  I did a clear ip bg w.x.y.z soft out, waited a bit, 
and still saw no effect.
 
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