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Created page with "= Customer BGP Communities = BGP customers can prepend, not advertise, and/or control local routing preference of their advertised routes by including community tags in their route advertisements to XMission.<br> NOTE: For customers that want to use communities, please reach out to our support team so we can enable this feature on our peer. Below are communities customers can use to control how their prefixes are routed/advertised: {| class="wikitable" |+ Local Pref..."
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Revision as of 10:31, 17 September 2025

Customer BGP Communities

BGP customers can prepend, not advertise, and/or control local routing preference of their advertised routes by including community tags in their route advertisements to XMission.
NOTE: For customers that want to use communities, please reach out to our support team so we can enable this feature on our peer. Below are communities customers can use to control how their prefixes are routed/advertised:


Local Preference
Community Description
6260:550 Sets Local-Preference to 550
6260:650 Sets Local-Preference to 650
6260:750 Sets Local-Preference to 750
6260:850 Sets Local-Preference to 850


Prepend Once
Community Description
62601:0 Prepend Once to all upstream networks
62601:174 Prepend Once to only Cogent
62601:7922 Prepend Once to only Comcast
62601:6939 Prepend Once to only Hurricane Electric
62601:3356 Prepend Once to only Lumen
62601:2914 Prepend Once to only NTT
62601:40519 Prepend Once to only SLIX
62061:701 Prepend Once to only Verizon


Prepend Twice
Community Description
62602:0 Prepend Twice to all upstream networks
62602:174 Prepend Twice to only Cogent
62602:7922 Prepend Twice to only Comcast
62602:6939 Prepend Twice to only Hurricane Electric
62602:3356 Prepend Twice to only Lumen
62602:2914 Prepend Twice to only NTT
62602:40519 Prepend Twice to only SLIX
62062:701 Prepend Twice to only Verizon


Prepend Thrice
Community Description
62603:0 Prepend Thrice to all upstream networks
62603:174 Prepend Thrice to only Cogent
62603:7922 Prepend Thrice to only Comcast
62603:6939 Prepend Thrice to only Hurricane Electric
62603:3356 Prepend Thrice to only Lumen
62603:2914 Prepend Thrice to only NTT
62603:40519 Prepend Thrice to only SLIX
62063:701 Prepend Thrice to only Verizon


No Adevertise
Community Description
62600:0 Do not Advertise to any upstream network
62600:174 Do not Advertise to Cogent
62600:7922 Do not Advertise to Comcast
62600:6939 Do not Advertise to Hurricane Electric
62600:3356 Do not Advertise to Lumen
62600:2914 Do not Advertise to NTT
62600:40519 Do not Advertise to SLIX
62600:701 Do not Advertise to Verizon