8-28. neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} send-community
Syntax Description:
ip-address— Neighbor's IP address.
peer-group-name— Name of the peer group. See section 8-19.
Purpose: By default, BGP community attributes are not advertised to peers. The neighbor send-community command enables the sending of BGP community attributes to BGP peers. Routing policies can be based on a neighbor address, a peer group name, or AS path information. Situations might arise in which you need to apply policies to routes that do not have any of the previously mentioned attributes in common. A community value is a numerical value or set of values that can be attached to a BGP route. Routing policies can then be applied to routes that contain a particular community ...
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