BGP Communities

The below communities can be used for their pure informational value and/or to modify the behavior of the routing service provided by AS48070.
Please note that these are all BGP Large Communities, as defined in RFC8092.


Informational Communities

We will set these on routes we send to you.

BGP Communities Description
48070:10:XXXX Route learned from peer with relationship type
48070:15:XXXX Route learned at site ID
48070:20:XXXX Route learned from peer ASN
48070:25:XXXX Route learned from IX ID


Action Communities

These communities control how we export routes.


Global Export
BGP Communities Description
48070:5000:0 No Export
48070:5000:1 Prepend once on all exports
48070:5000:2 Prepend twice on all exports
48070:5000:3 Prepend thrice on all exports


Per Internet Exchange
BGP Communities Description
48070:6000:XXXX No Export to IX ID XXXX
48070:6001:XXXX Prepend once to IX ID XXXX
48070:6002:XXXX Prepend twice to IX ID XXXX
48070:6003:XXXX Prepend thrice to IX ID XXXX


Per ASN
BGP Communities Description
48070:7000:XXXX No Export to AS XXXX
48070:7001:XXXX Prepend once to AS XXXX
48070:7002:XXXX Prepend twice to AS XXXX
48070:7003:XXXX Prepend thrice to AS XXXX


Per Site
BGP Communities Description
48070:8000:XXXX No Export from Site ID XXXX
48070:8001:XXXX Prepend once from Site ID XXXX
48070:8002:XXXX Prepend twice from Site ID XXXX
48070:8003:XXXX Prepend thrice from Site ID XXXX


BGP Wiki

The following information is unique to AS48070.


Site IDs

We use facility ID's from PeeringDB. Example: MyHostingSpace - Peterborough is 11352

ID Description
11352 MyHostingSpace - Peterborough
34 Telehouse - London (Docklands North)
601 Teledata Manchester - Delta House


Internet Exchange Points

We use IXP ID's from PeeringDB. Example: LINX LON1 is 18

ID Description
18 LINX LON1
321 LINX LON2
583 LINX Manchester
53 LONAP


Relationship Types

Communities based on Relationship Type will have one of the following ID's:

ID Description
100 Transit
200 Peers
400 Our customers
1000 Originated Routes