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BGP Communities

BGP communities which you can use for traffic engineering.

BGP communities in general provide an in-band mechanism to provide additional information along with routes announced through BGP. This information can be used for administrative but also technical purposes, such as route-filtering, prepending and preferring.

Traffic Engineering

At AS215085 we provide communities to allow customers to manage their traffic, our communities use the following logic to influence routing.

For internet exchanges we use the route-server to refer to the entire internet exchange, more specifics are currently not available for direct peering sessions over internet exchanges. Route-server communities will be passed through to the exchange. So the internet exchanges’ communities can be used as well.

Direct peering sessions include but are not limited to: AS6939, AS24940, AS13335, AS32934, AS15169

the documenation for ERA-IX can be found here

the documenation for AMS-IX can be found here

We support pass-through of communities to our upstreams.

Upstreams

We currently use the following upstreams for our network.

Tagged communities

All incoming routes are tagged with specific communities to indicate their source. This makes it easier to identify customer prefixes and apply appropriate routing policies.