BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 05:44:01PM -0800, dave seddon wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm trying to work out how to set the
> extended communities.  Anybody know how to set the Link Bandwidth Extended
> communities?
...

> Basically, need to set the community to:
> "
>    This document defines a specific application of the two-octet AS
>    specific extended community.  IANA is requested to assign a sub- type
>    value of 0x04 for the link bandwidth extended community.
> 
> 
>       Name                                           Value
>       ----                                           -----
>       non-transitive Link Bandwidth Ext. Community  0x4004
> "
... 
> e.g.
> export filter { bgp_ext_community.add((4, 65300, 999)); accept; };
> ( Mostly stolen from this nice example:
> http://bird.mpls.in/projects/mpls-bird/wiki/Bird_pe/2 )

Hi

Don't know if you use plain BIRD or one from bird.mpls.in, but "(4, 65300,
999)" is an invalid syntax. you should use: "(unknown 0x4004, 65300, 999)",
which works for me (not tested in tcpdump, but at least i got the same
back in show route).

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