Limit of numbers of BGP communities

Jeroen Massar jeroen at massar.ch
Fri Jul 12 11:40:55 CEST 2024



> On 12 Jul 2024, at 04:30, Ponikierski, Grzegorz via Bird-users <bird-users at network.cz> wrote:
> 
> Hello all!
>  How many standard communities, extended communities and large communities, user can apply on a route using Bird? BGP UPDATE message has finite size so I guess that there must be a limit somewhere.

The limit is that ISPs are limiting it to a 100:

 https://bgpfilterguide.nlnog.net/guides/many_communities/

Above that, it will be emptied completely in many networks.

Greets,
 Jeroen





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