BGP community

Communities sent to customers:

Public Peering

Our clients receives the following community depending on the IXP this route comes from:

Community IXP Location
29075:6350 FranceIX Paris   Paris (France)
29075:6400  SwissIX Geneve (Switzerland)
29075:6450 LillIX Lille (France)
29075:6550  EquinixIX-MLPE  Paris (France)
29075:6600  FranceIX AURA  Lyon (France)
29075:6650 AMS-IX  Amsterdam (Netherlands)
29075:6700 Linx LON1  London (UK)
29075:6750 DE-CIX  Frankfurt (Germany)

Upstream transit

Our clients receives the following community depending on the transit provider this routes comes from:

Community Transit AS Transit Name Location
29075:7050  AS1299   Arelion  Paris TH2
29075:7100  AS5511 OTI  Paris EQX3
29075:7350  AS6762  Sparkle  Paris TH2
29075:7500  AS174 Cogent  Paris TH2
29075:7600 AS3356  Centurylink  Paris EQX3 

PNI or specific

Our clients receives the following community depending on the peer this route comes from:

Community Peer AS Peer name Location
29075:8000 - Any PNI N/A
29075:8150 AS44530 Hopus Multiple
29075:8250 AS15169 Google Paris (France)
29075:8300 AS2906 Netflix Paris (France)
Note

The community 29075:8000 has changed usage, and now designate a route received from any PNI.

IELO’s customers prefixes

Our clients receives the following prefixes if it is originated from another transit client:

Community Type
29075:18000 Ielo customers routes
29075:19000 Ielo partial customers routes

Communities accepted from customers:

Theses communities are implemented in order to act on AS29075’s announcements of their routes.

Prepending communities

These communities makes IELO’s client able to act on the route redistribution overs peerings and transits. They serve to depriorize your routes or to do not announce them over specific points.

Replace X for the required action:

Value Action
X = 1 Prepend 1x AS29075
X = 2 Prepend 2x AS29075
X = 3 Prepend 3x AS29075
X = 4 Do NOT annonce
Community Peers Location Type
29075:635X FranceIX Paris  Paris (France) IX
29075:640X SwissIX Genève (Suisse) IX
29075:645X LillIX Lille (France) IX
29075:655X EquinixIX-MLPE Paris (France) IX
29075:660X FranceIX AURA Lyon (France) IX
29075:665X AMS-IX Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) IX
29075:670X Linx LON1 Londres (Royaume-Uni) IX
29075:675X DE-CIX Francfort (Allemagne) IX
29075:705X  AS1299 Arelion Paris TH2 Transit
29075:710X AS5511 OTI Paris EQX3 Transit
29075:735X AS6762 Sparkle Paris TH2 Transit 
29075:750X AS174 Cogent Paris TH2 Transit
29075:760X AS3356 Centurylink Paris EQX3  Transit
29075:815X AS44530 Hopus Multiple Autre
29075:825X AS15169 Google Paris (France) PNI
Exemple

If you want AS29075 to prepend twice on the AS Path for DE-CIX, add the community 29075:6752 to your route.

local-pref communities

Community Action
29075:18001 Customer secondary session (localpref 10 less)
29075:18002 Customer tertiary session (localpref 20 less)

Well-known implemented

The following well-known communities are implemented and followed:

Community Name
65535:65281 NO_EXPORT
65535:65282 NO_ADVERTISE
65535:0 GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN

Blackhole / Nullroute

Our current blackholing community is 29075:0.

Info

We are currently migrating this community towards 29075:666.


No longer in use

The following BGP community has been used on AS29075’s network but are no longer honored or used.

Warning

It’s important to remove theses communities from your configurations, as it might have unwilling results in case of a configuration error or a reuse of theses.

Removed interconnexions

Community Name
29075:7000 Transit AS3549 GBLX
29075:7250 Interco AS9009 M247
29075:7300 IPv6 Session AS6939 HE
29075:7400 Secondary Transit AS6762 Sparkle
29075:7550 Transit AS654 Tata
29075:8000 PNI AS16276 OVH (Reused)
29075:8050 PNI AS12322 Proxad/Illiad
29075:8100 PNI AS12876 Poneytelecom
29075:8200 Secondary PNI AS16276 OVH

Removed prepending community

The following communities were in used to act on the interconnexions and are no longer in use. “X” is a value to replace with 1 to 4 as number. However X with a value from 5 to 9 were reserved community and theus are as well deprecated.
To sum up, all X value from 1 to 9 are no longer current and should be removed.

Communities Action
29075:700X Prepend transit AS3549 GBLX
29075:725X Prepend interco AS9009 M247
29075:730X Prepend session IPv6 AS6939 HE
29075:740X Prepend transit Secondaire AS6762 Sparkle
29075:755X Prepend transit AS654 Tata
29075:800X Prepend PNI AS16276 OVH
29075:805X Prepend PNI AS12322 Proxad/Illiad
29075:810X Prepend PNI AS12876 Poneytelecom
29075:820X Prepend PNI Secondaire AS16276 OVH