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BGP Communities

BGP community strings supported by AS202941

We support both standard (16-bit) and large (32-bit) BGP communities.

Informational Communities

These communities are added to routes to indicate their origin and properties:

Community Large Community Description
202941:100 202941:100:0 Learned from customer
202941:200 202941:200:0 Learned from peer
202941:300 202941:300:0 Learned from transit
202941:400 202941:400:0 Originated by AS202941

Location Communities

These communities indicate where a route was learned:

Large Community Description
202941:1000:276 Learned in Germany (DE)
202941:1000:528 Learned in Netherlands (NL)
202941:1000:840 Learned in United States (US)
202941:1000:XXX XXX = ISO 3166-1 numeric country code

Action Communities

Customers and peers can use these communities to influence routing:

Large Community Description
202941:0:PEER_ASN Do not announce to specific peer
202941:1:PEER_ASN Prepend 1x to specific peer
202941:2:PEER_ASN Prepend 2x to specific peer
202941:3:PEER_ASN Prepend 3x to specific peer
202941:666:0 Blackhole route (requires /32 or /128)

Well-Known Communities

We honor standard well-known BGP communities:

Community Description
NO_EXPORT (65535:65281) Do not export outside AS202941
NO_ADVERTISE (65535:65282) Do not advertise to any peer
GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN (65535:0) Graceful BGP session shutdown (RFC 8326)

Note: Community support may vary. Please contact NOC if you need specific community support for your use case.