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 These are the communities we carry in iBGP. Communities in blue are sent to customers who have requested send-community. Communities in black are accepted from customers to influence routing policy. 
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Communities
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| Description | 
Origination | 
1 Prepend | 
2 Prepends | 
3 Prepends | 
Do not advertise | 
 
| Transit | 
42579:1000 | 
42579:10001 | 
42579:10002 | 
42579:10003 | 
42579:10009 | 
 
| Transit - UK | 
42579:1001 | 
42579:10011 | 
42579:10012 | 
42579:10013 | 
42579:10019 | 
 
| Transit - USA | 
42579:1002 | 
42579:10021 | 
42579:10022 | 
42579:10023 | 
42579:10029 | 
 
| Transit - NTT | 
42579:1101 | 
42579:11011 | 
42579:11012 | 
42579:11013 | 
42579:11019 | 
 
| Transit - Datahop | 
42579:1102 | 
42579:11021 | 
42579:11022 | 
42579:11023 | 
42579:11029 | 
 
| Transit - Atlantic Metro | 
42579:1103 | 
42579:11031 | 
42579:11032 | 
42579:11033 | 
42579:11039 | 
 
| Transit - Level3 | 
42579:1104 | 
42579:11041 | 
42579:11042 | 
42579:11043 | 
42579:11049 | 
 
| Public Peering | 
42579:2000 | 
42579:20001 | 
42579:20002 | 
42579:20003 | 
42579:20009 | 
 
| Public Peering - NYCx | 
42579:2001 | 
42579:20011 | 
42579:20012 | 
42579:20013 | 
42579:20019 | 
 
| Public Peering - LINX | 
42579:2002 | 
42579:20021 | 
42579:20022 | 
42579:20023 | 
42579:20029 | 
 
| Public Peering - LONAP | 
42579:2003 | 
42579:20031 | 
42579:20032 | 
42579:20033 | 
42579:20039 | 
 
| Public Peering - BigAPE | 
42579:2004 | 
42579:20041 | 
42579:20042 | 
42579:20043 | 
42579:20049 | 
 
| Private Peering | 
42579:3000 | 
42579:30001 | 
42579:30002 | 
42579:30003 | 
42579:30009 | 
 
| Customer | 
42579:4000 | 
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| Customer - lsrei01 | 
42579:4001 | 
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| Customer - lsmit01 | 
42579:4002 | 
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| Customer - lnpop01 | 
42579:4003 | 
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| Customer - lnpop02 | 
42579:4004 | 
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| Customer - clbis02 | 
42579:4005 | 
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| Sargasso originated | 
42579:5000 | 
 | 
 
| Sargasso originated - lsrei01 | 
42579:5001 | 
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| Sargasso originated - lsmit01 | 
42579:5002 | 
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| Sargasso originated - lnpop01 | 
42579:5003 | 
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| Sargasso originated - lnpop02 | 
42579:5004 | 
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| Sargasso originated - clbis02 | 
42579:5005 | 
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| Description | 
 | 
Increase | 
Normal | 
Decrease | 
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| Influence localpref | 
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42579:10 | 
42579:11 | 
42579:12 | 
 
| Description | 
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Community | 
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| Announce (Sargasso+customer) | 
 | 
42579:501 | 
 
| Blackhole route | 
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42579:666 | 
 
 
Each route also carries a local preference. The following are common examples: 
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Local Preference
 | 
 
| localpref | 
Description | 
 
| 160 | 
Preferred customer or internal | 
 
| 150 | 
Standard customer or internal | 
 
| 140 | 
De-prefed customer or internal | 
 
| 130 | 
Preferred private peer | 
 
| 120 | 
Standard private peer | 
 
| 110 | 
De-prefed private peer | 
 
| 100 | 
Preferred public peer | 
 
| 90 | 
Standard public peer | 
 
| 80 | 
De-prefed public peer | 
 
| 70 | 
Preferred transit | 
 
| 60 | 
Standard transit | 
 
| 50 | 
De-prefed transit | 
 
 
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