Dear group, we are putting a couple of Bird route servers with an IXP manager front-end to Slovenian internet exchange (SIX). At route servers, we are using the well known model for BGP communities: block announcement of a route to a certain peer 0:peer-as announcement of a route to a certain peer ix-as:peer-as block announcement of a route to all peers 0:ix-as announcement of a route to all peers ix-as:ix-as How do you handle the announcements with no community set? Do you request that "announcement of a route to all peers" is set in order to announce the prefixes from your IXP route servers? I will appreciate your feedback, thank you. Kind regards, Matjaž --- Matjaž Straus Istenič, Arnes http://www.arnes.si Tel: +386 1 4798-877 Fax: +386 1 4798-878 matjaz.straus@arnes.si MS6745-RIPE PGP 490F3B4F 2009-10-21 Fingerprint = 6172 7BF8 B0B7 1F09 47B3 AFA3 0946 1701 490F 3B4F