BGP Communities
Communities our routers set to tell you where a route came from, and the ones they accept from customers to steer announcements.
- informational communities
- 7
- transit control communities
- 12
- IXP and peer control communities
- 16
- machine-readable export
- JSON
Informational
Informational communities
Added automatically by our routers to the routes they learn, to indicate their origin.
| Source | Community | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Transit (general) | 39421:1000 | Route learned from a transit provider |
| MOJI SAS (AS47160) | 39421:1001 | Route learned from transit provider Moji |
| GTT Communications Inc. (AS3257) | 39421:1002 | Route learned from transit provider GTT |
| Peers (general) | 39421:2000 | Route learned from a peer |
| NINE peering | 39421:2010 | Route learned via NINE peering |
| NINE route server | 39421:2011 | Route learned via NINE route server |
| NINE direct peering | 39421:2012 | Route learned via NINE direct peering |
Control
Control communities
Tag the routes you send us to control how we announce them, per provider or per exchange.
Transit providers
Control how we announce your routes to our upstream providers.
| Target | Community | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| All Transit Providers | 65009:1000 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:1000 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:1000 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:1000 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
| MOJI SAS (AS47160) | 65009:1001 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:1001 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:1001 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:1001 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
| GTT Communications Inc. (AS3257) | 65009:1002 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:1002 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:1002 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:1002 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. |
IXP / Peers
Control how we announce your routes at our peering points.
| Target | Community | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| All Peers | 65009:2000 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:2000 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:2000 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:2000 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
| NINE peering | 65009:2010 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:2010 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:2010 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:2010 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
| NINE route server | 65009:2011 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:2011 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:2011 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:2011 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
| NINE direct peering | 65009:2012 | Routes will not be announced to this peer/provider. |
65001:2012 | Prepend our AS once on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65002:2012 | Prepend our AS twice on this route, in addition to the default behavior. | |
65003:2012 | Prepend our AS three times on this route, in addition to the default behavior. |
A community missing?
Tell us what you need to steer and where, and we will look into it.