[AusNOG] Exetel communities

[Andrew Jones]

Hi Shannon,
Exetel will learn your more specific routes via their transit and/or 
peering and will send all traffic for your network via these more 
specific routes, meaning no traffic would come over your direct peering 
with Exetel.

Perhaps instead of buying transit from them, you could peer with them 
at one of the IX points they're on? They won't advertise peer routes to 
their upstreams.
Andrew



On 22.08.2014 19:34, Shannon Gernyi wrote:
> Thanks Macca, in reviewing your response, two things have become 
> clear to me:
>
> 1. The reason I wrote off "no-export" initially.
> 2. That I didn't think my question through in the first place (Well,
> I didn't ask what I meant to ask).
>
> What I want is for Exetel to not export to their upstreams but do
> export to their customers, and accept the routes themselves.
>
> In thinking about it further, it might be doable to give exetel
> "summary routes" with no export, where we announce more specific
> through a different provider covering the whole network. Their 
> (Single
> homed customers on Exetel who receive full tables) traffic will enter
> Exetel (destined for us via the other provider as far as their router
> is concerned), and then go straight to us.
> Is there any flaw in my thinking here?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Shannon
> au.linkedin.com/in/shannongernyi/ [1]
>
> -------------------------
>
> FROM: "McDonald Richards" <mcdonald.richards at gmail.com>
> TO: "Shannon Gernyi" <shannon.gernyi at xsv.com.au>
> CC: "Chris Jones" <chrisj at aprole.com>, ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> SENT: Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 12:14:11 PM
> SUBJECT: Re: [AusNOG] Exetel communities
>
> Use with caution -- single homed exetel bgp customers will also not
> receive any prefix that you send with no-export. If no larger prefix
> or default exists in those networks, they will have no route at all.
>
>  Macca
>
> On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Shannon Gernyi 
> <shannon.gernyi at xsv.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Chris - d'oh! I knew that! Having one of those days :/
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Shannon
>> au.linkedin.com/in/shannongernyi/ [1]
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> FROM: "Chris Jones" <chrisj at aprole.com>
>> TO: "Shannon Gernyi" <shannon.gernyi at xsv.com.au>
>> CC: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> SENT: Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 11:52:12 AM
>> SUBJECT: Re: [AusNOG] Exetel communities
>>
>> Standard "no-export" community...?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 20 Aug 2014, at 11:47 am, Shannon Gernyi 
>> <shannon.gernyi at xsv.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> G'day Noggers,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for some information on communities available on 
>>> Exetel, if any exist.
>>> Their website states there is no way to influence traffic ingress 
>>> to them, I'm hoping to find a way to announce some networks to them, 
>>> without them redistributing at all.
>>>
>>> I'm following up with our contacts at Exetel, but I thought the 
>>> wealth of knowledge here might turn something up that my google-fu 
>>> can't ;)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Shannon
>>> au.linkedin.com/in/shannongernyi/ [1]
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