generic extended communities support

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Dec 28 23:49:24 CET 2015


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 02:19:23PM -0800, Warren Turkal wrote:
> Bird folks,
> 
> Is there any chance that the transitive part of the following RFC draft
> will be implemented in BIRD?
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-as4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype-08
> 
> I only ask as the implementation seems like it might be trivial since one
> can already do something like (4, 4200000000, 60000) already works for ext
> communities in Bird.

Yes, it is rather trivial, there is just one minor issue - 'generic'
keyword in EC is already used for something different (essentially 'raw'
EC). But that could be handled by using 'raw' instead of current 'generic'
and then use 'generic' for draft-ietf...generic.

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