BGP communities


  • Helps with scalability in large networks
  • Group of destinations that share some common property
  1. no-export
    • Do not advertise to EBGP peers
    • will go to sub-confed peers
  2. no-advertise
    • Do not advertise to any peer
    • will go to next-hop only
  3. internet
    • Advertise to any peer
  4. none
    • Removes the community with: set community none

Always need:

 	neighbor x.x.x.x send-community
 	neighbor x.x.x.x route-map rm-set-community OUT
 	clear ip bgp *

to propagate the community


Local-as, also known as do not "export the subconfederation" will be not be advertised to the EBGP neighbors.