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Chapter 6: BGP Configuration Guide
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Figure 6. Sample BGP Configuration (Well-Known Community)
The Community attribute can be used in three ways:
1. In a BGP Group statement: Any packets sent to this group of BGP peers will have the
communities attribute in the BGP packet modified to be this communities attribute
value from this AS.
2. In an Import Statement: Any packets received from a BGP peer will be checked for the
community attribute. The optional-attributes-list option of the ip-router policy
create
command allows the specification of an import policy based on optional path
attributes (for instance, the community attribute) found in the BGP update. If multiple
communities are specified in the optional-attributes-list option, only updates
carrying all of the specified communities will be matched. If well-known-community
none
is specified, only updates lacking the community attribute will be matched.
Note that it is quite possible for several BGP import clauses to match a given update.
If more than one clause matches, the first matching clause will be used; all later
matching clauses will be ignored. For this reason, it is generally desirable to order
import clauses from most to least specific. An import clause without an optional-
attributes-list
option will match any update with any (or no) communities.
AS-64902
Physical Link
Legend:
Peering Relationship
SSR11
Information Flow
10.220.1.1/16 172.25.1.2/16
192.168.20.2/16
172.25.1.1/16
SSR13
SSR10
192.168.20.1/16
100.200.13.1/24
AS-64901
AS-64900
ISP2
100.200.12.20/24