Whether the claims are true or not, this was a very entertaining BGP refresher. It made me wonder: 15+ years ago, I was network engineer and we used quite a bit of "BGP community magic" to get the routing outcomes we wanted.
If BGP only really needed to represent three types of peers (provider, customer, actual peer), wouldn't BGP configuration and perhaps even BGP be massively simplified?
If BGP only really needed to represent three types of peers (provider, customer, actual peer), wouldn't BGP configuration and perhaps even BGP be massively simplified?