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What a LOA Is in a Data Center
If you order a cross-connect in a data center, you will hear one term fast: LOA. LOA stands for Letter of Authorization. It is the data center’s written proof that you approve a physical connection between two parties. Think of it as the bouncer at ...
What BGP communities do the FD-IX route servers support?
Announcement control via BGP communities Routes tagged with the NO_EXPORT or NO_ADVERTISE communities received by the route server are propagated to other clients with those communities unaltered. Function Standard Extended Large Do not announce to ...
What are the Reject reasons BGP is not working correctly?
Reject reasons The following values are used to identify the reason for which routes are rejected. This is mostly used for troubleshooting, internal reporting purposes, looking glasses or in the route server log files. ID Reason 0 Generic code: the ...
Filtering Policy: AS_PATH attribute
AS_PATH attribute Routes whose AS_PATH is longer than 24 ASNs are rejected. The left-most ASN in the AS_PATH of any route announced to the route server must be the ASN of the announcing client. Routes whose AS_PATH contains private or invalid ASNs ...
Route Server general behaviors
The following are two of the route server general behaviors. Route server ASN is not prepended to the AS_PATH of routes announced to clients (RFC7947 section 2.2.2.1 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7947#section-2.2.2.1)). Route server does implement ...