[c-nsp] control iBGP advertisements

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Fri Dec 6 05:04:39 EST 2013


On Friday, December 06, 2013 05:19:46 AM CiscoNSP List 
wrote:

> Have a number of edge routers with customer prefixes +
> full tables, and I only want to distribute customer
> prefixes to other edge routers
> 
> So, would I set community "AS:nnn" on the route map "in"
> on our iptransit peering(For the full table prefixes),
> and then deny them(community) on the route map "out" on
> the iBGP peering to the edge routers?

Yes, communities are the best way to handle iBGP routing.

Prefix lists and AS_PATH lists are better used across eBGP 
sessions, although nothing prevents you from using prefix 
lists on iBGP sessions (other than it doesn't scale).

Cheers,

Mark.
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