[j-nsp] setting named communities on static routes

[Chuck Anderson]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 02:30:52PM -0500, Jeff Haas wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 28, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know why Junos doesn't accept named communities for static
> > routes?  This doesn't work:
> > 
> > set routing-options static route 192.0.2.0/24 community TEST
> > set policy-options community TEST members 65000:100
> > 
> > Instead we are forced to put the value directly:
> > 
> > set routing-options static route 192.0.2.0/24 community 65000:100
> > set policy-options community TEST members 65000:100
> > 
> > Can Juniper please fix this?  Thanks :-)
> 
> Speaking unofficially, these consistency warts drive us just as crazy as they do you.
> 
> But in order to preserve our own sanity, and not bring down the wrath of everyone else's operations who use the existing behavior, it's not likely to get changed.

Well, please just add a new option "community-name" then, like there
is for the operational mode command.