BGP Communities
Traffic Engineering Communities
We use BGP Extended Communities to provide traffic-engineering control down to each ASN.
The communities below will be stripped while exporting to our transit providers and peering partners to reduce the load of control plane.
| Description | BGP Extended Communitiy |
|---|---|
| Don't announce to peering partners | rt, 65009, 65100 |
| Don't announce to transit providers | rt, 65009, 65000 |
| Announce to specific AS | rt, 65000, ASN |
| Don't announce to specific AS | rt, 65009, ASN |
| Prepend 1x to specific AS | rt, 65001, ASN |
| Prepend 2x to specific AS | rt, 65002, ASN |
| Prepend 3x to specific AS | rt, 65003, ASN |
For example, use the communities below if you want to disable all our transit providers excluding Lumen:
bgp_ext_community.add((rt, 65009, 65000));
bgp_ext_community.add((rt, 65000, 3356));
BGP Communities supported by our transit providers
Not all of our transit providers have it in public.
Please contact us for access to these documents if you need them.