Re: BGP Communities values

Usually it is used as following format.

XXX:YYY

XXX will be unique number, which is usually ASN.
YYY is local significant number, which is usally the number assigned for
local preference.

You can find further document for BGP community from here.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1998.txt

Also you can find how each ISP define BGP community value from here.

http://www.onesc.net/communities/

Alex

Kelvin Yeo wrote:
> Anyone can explain the idea behind assigning the communities values such as
> below
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> 300:200 or 123:456
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> Why is 300/123 assigned as AA while 200/456 assigned as NN in the AA:NN
> format? I mean, is there a rule to follow or design purposes? What exactly
> is it telling us?
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> Kelvin
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Received on Thu May 28 2009 - 15:55:06 ART