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community

Syntax

community name {
invert-match;
members [ community-ids ];
}

Hierarchy Level

[edit logical-systems logical-system-name policy-options],
[edit policy-options]

Release Information

Statement introduced before JUNOS Release 7.4.

Description

Define a community or extended community for use in a routing policy match condition.

Options

name—Name that identifies the regular expression. The name can contain letters, numbers, and hyphens (-) and can be up to 255 characters. To include spaces in the name, enclose it in quotation marks (“ ”).

invert-match—Invert the results of the community expression matching.

members community-ids—One or more community members. If you specify more than one member, you must enclose all members in brackets.

The format for community-ids is:

as-number:community-value

as-number is the AS number and can be a value in the range from 0 through 65,535. community-value is the community identifier and can be a number in the range from 0 through 65,535.

You also can specify community-ids for communities as one of the following well-known community names, which are defined in RFC 1997, BGP Communities Attribute:

You can explicitly exclude BGP community information with a static route using the none option. Include none when configuring an individual route in the route portion of the static statement to override a community option specified in the defaults portion of the statement.

The format for extended community-ids is the following:

type:administrator:assigned-number

type is the type of extended community and can be either a bandwidth, target, origin, domain-id, src-as, or rt-import community or a 16-bit number that identifies a specific BGP extended community. The target community identifies the destination to which the route is going. The origin community identifies where the route originated. The domain-id community identifies the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) domain from which the route originated. The src-as community identifies the autonomous system from which the route originated. The rt-import community identifies the route to install in the routing table.

Note: For src-as, you can specify only an AS number and not an IP address. For rt-import, you can specify only an IP address and not an AS number.

administrator is the administrator. It is either an AS number or an IPv4 address prefix, depending on the type of extended community.

assigned-number identifies the local provider.

The format for linking a bandwidth with an AS number is:

bandwidth:as-number:bandwidth

as-number specifies the AS number and bandwidth specifies the bandwidth in bytes per second.

Note: Beginning with JUNOS Release 9.1, the AS number range has been extended to provide BGP support for 4-byte AS numbers as defined in RFC 4893, BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space. For extended communities, you can now specify an AS value in plain-number format in the range from 1 through 4,294,967,295. To configure an extended community for a target or an origin that includes a 4-byte AS number in plain-number format, you must append the letter “L” to the end of the number. For example, to configure a target for the 4-byte AS number 334,324 with an assigned number of 132, include the following statement: target:334324L:132.

Beginning with JUNOS Release 9.2, you can also configure a 4-byte AS number using the AS-dot notation format of two integer values joined by a period: <16-bit high-order value in decimal>.<16-bit low-order value in decimal>. For example, the 4-byte AS number of 65546 in plain-number format is represented as 1.10 in the AS-dot notation format. The target and origin extended communities support the AS-dot notation format for 4-byte AS numbers.

Usage Guidelines

See Configuring Communities, Inverting Community Matches, and Configuring Link Bandwidth.

Required Privilege Level

routing—To view this statement in the configuration.

routing-control—To add this statement to the configuration.


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