[AusNOG] OPTUS BGP Communities

[Gavin Tweedie]

Not sure how current this info is:
http://looking-glass.optus.net.au/notes.html

Gav

Sean K. Finn wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for all of your replies r.e. UDP flooding and creative BGP 
> Techniques J
>
> Does anyone know if OPTUS supports Community ID’s in their BGP 
> annoucements for route selection?
>
> I Know AAPT does, which allows us to announce our IP ranges to AAPT 
> requesting wheter they are advertised to Australia or International 
> peers, etc.
>
> The rationale is that we’ll select some of our links to have 
> Australian routes only, with the other providers having no annoucment 
> limitations, but a longer BGP path so that International traffic will 
> prefer to come down the one link, jamming it when we get a UDP flood, 
> and still allowing all Australian traffic to come through the other 
> links if the designated international route is jammed with UDP.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean.
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