Large BGP Communities

INEX Deploys Large BGP Communities in Production

The Internet Neutral Exchange Association (INEX) is the first network operator in the world to deploy Large BGP Communities in production! Their deployment using BIRD is another important step in its adoption. INEX is a neutral, industry-owned association that provides IP peering facilities in five secure data centers around Dublin, Ireland. The INEX route server routing policy is extended with support to control routing information sent to the route server as follows:

  • Representation: inex:action:rsclient
Policy Action Community
Announce a prefix to a certain peer 43760:1:peer-as
Prevent announcement of a prefix to a certain peer 43760:0:peer-as
Announce a prefix to all peers 43760:1:0
Prevent announcement of a prefix to all peers 43760:0:0