BGP Action Communities
We provide communities that you can use to make changes within our network.
Please note that we only support BGP Large Communities.
Per ASN
These communities control how we export routes to other ASNs:
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 400587 | 1000 | Peer ASN | Do not advertise to Peer ASN |
| 400587 | 1001 | Peer ASN | Prepend once to peer ASN |
| 400587 | 1002 | Peer ASN | Prepend twice to peer ASN |
| 400587 | 1003 | Peer ASN | Prepend three times to peer ASN |
Per Internet Exchange
These communities control how we export routes at Internet Exchanges:
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 400587 | 2000 | IX ID | Do not advertise to IX RS |
| 400587 | 2001 | IX ID | Prepend once to IX RS |
| 400587 | 2002 | IX ID | Prepend twice to IX RS |
| 400587 | 2003 | IX ID | Prepend three times to IX RS |
Per Site
These communities control how we export routes at our sites:
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 400587 | 3000 | Site ID | Do not advertise at site |
| 400587 | 3001 | Site ID | Prepend once at site |
| 400587 | 3002 | Site ID | Prepend twice at site |
| 400587 | 3003 | Site ID | Prepend three times at site |
Local Preference
These communities control how we setup local preference. You can view our default local preference here.
| Local Pref | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400587 | 4000 | 50 | 50 | Lower than transit |
| 400587 | 4000 | 80 | 80 | Lower than IX Route Server Peer |
| 400587 | 4000 | 140 | 140 | Lower Than IX Public Peer |
| 400587 | 4000 | 160 | 160 | Lower Than Public Peer |
| 400587 | 4000 | 210 | 210 | Higher than customer |
Global
These communities control how we export routes everywhere:
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 400587 | 10000 | 0 | Do not advertise |
| 400587 | 10000 | 1 | Prepend once |
| 400587 | 10000 | 2 | Prepend twice |
| 400587 | 10000 | 3 | Prepend three |
| 400587 | 10000 | 666 | Blackhole(supports IPv4 from /24 to /32 and IPv6 from /48 to /128) |