Chapter 7

1: What capability does the cost community add to BGP?
A1: The ability to customize the BGP decision process by inserting an administratively defined cost at any point.
2: What capability does the redistribution community add to BGP?
A2: The ability to control redistribution at a peering point outside your local autonomous system.
3: Where is the redistribution community most useful for implementing policy?
A3: In an internetwork where the immediate surrounding connectivity is well known and the redistribution community can be used to influence traffic flow in to the local autonomous system.
4: What capability does the No Peer community add to BGP?
A4: The ability to determine which of your peer's peers a given prefix will be advertised to, ...

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