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BGP Communities

Strategic Explorations uses BGP communities to control traffic engineering and propagate route information.

Region Identifers

Identifers Description
41 Europe
42 North America-E
43 North America-C
44 North America-W
45 Central America
46 South America-E
47 South America-W
48 Africa-N (above Sahara)
49 Africa-S (below Sahara)
50 Asia-S (IN,PK,BD)
51 Asia-SE (TH,SG,PH,ID,MY)
52 Asia-E (JP,CN,KR,TW,HK)
53 Pacific&Oceania (AU,NZ,FJ)
54 Antarctica
55 Asia-N (RU)
56 Asia-W (IR,TR,UAE)
57 Central Asia (AF,UZ,KZ)

Well Known Community

666: Blackhole (RTBH)

This community is used to drop traffic to a specific IP under DDoS attack.

Community Description
(OURASN, 666, 0) Discard traffic to this prefix (Blackhole)

Public Community

These communities can be set by peers to influence our routing decisions.

2: Local Preference Control

Community Description
(OURASN, 2, 1) Set Local Preference to 100 (default value)
(OURASN, 2, 2) Set Local Preference to 200
(OURASN, 2, 3) Set Local Preference to 0

5: Prepend Control

Community Description
(OURASN, 5, 1) Path Prepend x1
(OURASN, 5, 2) Path Prepend x2
(OURASN, 5, 3) Path Prepend x3
(OURASN, 5, 4) Path Prepend x4
(OURASN, 5, 5) Path Prepend x5

4: Peer Type Indicator

Community Description
(OURASN, 4, 10) Peer Type: Full Table
(OURASN, 4, 20) Peer Type: Transit
(OURASN, 4, 21) Peer Type: Private Transit
(OURASN, 4, 30) Peer Type: Downstream
(OURASN, 4, 40) Peer Type: Peer
(OURASN, 4, 41) Peer Type: Private Peer

6: Route Origin Region Indicator

DN42 region communities are auto translated when importing to our network.

Community Description
(OURASN, 6, {REGION}) Origin Region: REGION

7: Route Import Region Indicator

Community Description
(OURASN, 7, {REGION}) Import Region: REGION

11/12/13: Regional Prepend Control

Community Description
(OURASN, 11, {REGION}) Prepend x1 at REGION
(OURASN, 12, {REGION}) Prepend x2 at REGION
(OURASN, 13, {REGION}) Prepend x3 at REGION

20: RPKI Check Result

Community Description
(OURASN, 20, 1) RPKI Check: VALID
(OURASN, 20, 2) RPKI Check: INVALID
(OURASN, 20, 3) RPKI Check: UNKNOWN
(OURASN, 20, 4) RPKI Check: INVALID (Flapping Route)