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BGP action communities

Action communities are for customers use only.

Well-known communities

community description
65535:666 RFC7999, will be rewriten to 50629:666 internally
do-not-export do not announce to any eBGP peer

Blackholing

We accept /32 (ipv4) and /128 (ipv6).

community description
50629:666 blackhole traffic to prefix, please use 65536:666 for blackholing

Transit / PNI / IXP

Prepend / filter announcement to AS50629 transits / PNI / IXP. Use the corresponding info community with an addition for the desired action.

Example

community description
50629:XXX00 do not announce to XXX
50629:XXX01 prepend 1x to XXX
50629:XXX02 prepend 2x to XXX
50629:XXX03 prepend 3x to XXX

Example for DTAG

community description
50629:30100 do not announce to DTAG
50629:30101 prepend 1x to DTAG
50629:30102 prepend 2x to DTAG
50629:30103 prepend 3x to DTAG

Example for DE-CIX Frankfurt

community description
50629:40100 do not announce at DE-CIX Frankfurt
50629:40101 prepend 1x to DE-CIX Frankfurt
50629:40102 prepend 2x to DE-CIX Frankfurt
50629:40103 prepend 3x to DE-CIX Frankfurt