BGP Community No Advertise

The BGP No Advertise community is one of the four well known communities. If you have no idea what BGP communities are about, I would suggest to check the introduction lesson first. That’s where you will learn about the basics of BGP communities.

When you add the no-advertise community to a prefix then the receiving BGP router will use and store the prefix in its BGP table but it won’t advertise the prefix to any other neighbors.

Let’s look at an example, this is the topology I will use:

BGP Community No Advertise Topology

Above you can see R1 with a loopback interface that has network 1.1.1.1 /32. We will advertise this network in BGP towards R2 with the no advertise community set. As a result, R2 will not advertise it to R3 (eBGP) or R4 (iBGP).

Configuration

Here’s the basic BGP configuration in case you want to try this example yourself.

Configurations

Want to take a look for yourself? Here you will find the startup configuration of each device.

R1

hostname R1
!
ip cef
!
interface Loopback0
 ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
!         
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 ip address 192.168.12.1 255.255.255.0
!
router bgp 1
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 network 1.1.1.1 mask 255.255.255.255
 neighbor 192.168.12.2 remote-as 24
!
end

R2

hostname R2
!
ip cef
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 ip address 192.168.12.2 255.255.255.0
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
 ip address 192.168.23.2 255.255.255.0
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/3
 ip address 192.168.24.2 255.255.255.0
!
router bgp 24
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 neighbor 192.168.12.1 remote-as 1
 neighbor 192.168.23.3 remote-as 3
 neighbor 192.168.24.4 remote-as 24
 neighbor 192.168.24.4 next-hop-self
!
end

R3

hostname R3
!
ip cef
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 ip address 192.168.23.3 255.255.255.0
!
router bgp 3
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 neighbor 192.168.23.2 remote-as 24
!
end

R4

hostname R4
!
ip cef
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 ip address 192.168.24.4 255.255.255.0
!
router bgp 24
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 neighbor 192.168.24.2 remote-as 24
!
end

Let’s see if R2, R3 and R4 have learned our prefix:

R2#show ip bgp | include 1.1.1.1
*> 1.1.1.1/32       192.168.12.1             0             0 1 i
R3#show ip bgp | include 1.1.1.1
*> 1.1.1.1/32       192.168.23.2                           0 24 1 i
R4#show ip bgp | include 1.1.1.1
* i1.1.1.1/32       192.168.24.2             0    100      0 1 i

It’s in the BGP table of these routers. Now let’s configure R1 to add the no advertise community:

R1(config)#router bgp 1
R1(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.12.2 send-community

First we have to tell R1 to send BGP communities, by default this is disabled. Now we can create a route-map that sets the community value:

R1(config)#route-map NO_ADVERTISE permit 10
R1(config-route-map)#set community no-advertise

This route-map doesn’t have any match statements so it will set the no advertise community to all prefixes. Let’s activate it:

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Forum Replies

  1. Rene,
    Great lesson to understand community. I have question if we have two loopbacks for instance 2.2.2.2/32 on R1 and I would like to advertize this and block 1.1.1.1/32. Do I need an ACL to match under route-map?

    Please confirm
    Hamood

  2. Hi Hamood,

    That’s right, in this example I used a really simple route-map but you could do something like this:

    access-list 1 permit host 1.1.1.1
    
    route-map NO_ADVERTISE deny 10
    match ip address 1
    set community no-advertise
    
    route-map NO_ADVERTISE permit 20
    

    The first route-map statement will deny everything that matches access-list 1, the second route-map statement is required to permit everything else.

    Rene

  3. that’s great explanation. thanks Rene

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