BGP extented communities checks

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:37:23PM +0200, Arnaud Fenioux wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I have played with extended communities with some of my peers, and have written this function below to facilitate my checks.
> 
> On the examples found on github (https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/wikis/Route_server_with_community_based_filtering_and_multiple_RIBs and https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/wikis/Route_server_with_community_based_filtering_and_single_RIB) 
> 
> I have noticed that RO are used :
> if (ro,myas,peeras) ~ bgp_ext_community then return true;
> bgp_ext_community.delete([(ro,0,*)]);
> 
> But according to my tests, RT should be used.
> Did anybody made the same ascertainment?

Hi

Well, you could use either RT or RO, they are just different classes of
extended communities. But semantically, using RT makes more sense.

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