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Configuring a large-scale BGP network 
In a large network, the number of BGP connections is huge and BGP configuration and maintenance 
are complicated. To simply BGP configuration, you can use the peer group, community, route 
reflector, and confederation features as needed. For more information about configuring peer groups, 
see "Configuring a BGP peer group."
 
Configuring BGP community 
By default, a router does not advertise the COMMUNITY or extended community attribute to its 
peers or peer groups. When the router receives a route carrying the COMMUNITY or extended 
community attribute, it removes the attribute before advertising the route to other peers or peer 
groups.  
Perform this task to enable a router to advertise the COMMUNITY or extended community attribute 
to its peers for route filtering and control. You can also reference a routing policy to add or modify the 
COMMUNITY or extended community attribute for specific routes. For more information about 
routing policy, see "Configuring routing policies." 
T
o configure BGP community (IPv4): 
 
Step  Command  Remarks 
1.  Enter system view. 
system-view 
N/A 
2.  Enter BGP view or BGP-VPN 
instance view. 
•  Enter BGP view: 
bgp as-number 
•  Enter BGP-VPN instance 
view: 
a. bgp as-number 
b. ip vpn-instance 
vpn-instance-name
N/A 
3.  Enter BGP IPv4 unicast 
address family view or 
BGP-VPN IPv4 unicast 
address family view. 
address-family ipv4
 [ 
unicast
 ]  N/A 
4.  Advertise the COMMUNITY 
or extended community 
attribute to a peer or peer 
group. 
• Advertise the COMMUNITY 
attribute to a peer or peer 
group: 
peer { group-name | 
ip-address [ mask-length ] } 
advertise-community 
• Advertise the extended 
community attribute to a peer 
or peer group: 
peer { group-name | 
ip-address [ mask-length ] } 
advertise-ext-community 
By default, the COMMUNITY or 
extended community attribute is 
not advertised. 
5.  (Optional.) Apply a routing 
policy to routes advertised to 
a peer or peer group. 
peer
 { group-name | ip-address 
[ mask-length ] } 
route-policy
 
route-policy-name 
export
 
By default, no routing policy is 
applied. 
 
To configure BGP community (IPv6): 
 
Step  Command  Remarks 
1.  Enter system view. 
system-view 
N/A