Supported BGP Communities

Fine-grained control over outbound route announcements through MMIX route servers

Policy Control with BGP Communities

MMIX supports BGP Communities to allow participants to manage routing decisions through the route servers. This provides fine-grained control over outbound route announcements.

Important Note

When using communities:

  • For Yangon (YGN) location, use communities starting with 9654:...
  • For Mandalay (MDY) location, use communities starting with 9333:...
  • For Tachileik (TCL) location, use communities starting with 4652:...

Supported Communities

Extended Community Description
RT:0:PeerAS Do not advertise to peer
RT:9654:PeerAS Advertise to peer
RT:0:9654 Do not advertise to all
RT:65511:PeerAS Prepend once to peer
RT:65512:PeerAS Prepend twice to peer
RT:65513:PeerAS Prepend thrice to peer
RT:65501:9654 Prepend once to all
RT:65502:9654 Prepend twice to all
RT:65503:9654 Prepend thrice to all
RT:65281:PeerAS Add no export to peer
RT:65282:PeerAS Add no advertise to peer
Extended Community Description
RT:0:PeerAS Do not advertise to peer
RT:9333:PeerAS Advertise to peer
RT:0:9333 Do not advertise to all
RT:65511:PeerAS Prepend once to peer
RT:65512:PeerAS Prepend twice to peer
RT:65513:PeerAS Prepend thrice to peer
RT:65501:9333 Prepend once to all
RT:65502:9333 Prepend twice to all
RT:65503:9333 Prepend thrice to all
RT:65281:PeerAS Add no export to peer
RT:65282:PeerAS Add no advertise to peer
Standard Community Extended Community Description
0:4652 RT:0:4652 Do not advertise to any peer
4652:$PEER-AS RT:4652:$PEER-AS Advertise to certain peer
0:$PEER-AS RT:0:$PEER-AS Do not advertise to

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