Routing

Hello,

It is not very clear whether an OR or AND operation perform when there are multiple bgp communities are used in a term and each one has more than one member (example below). Appreciate if someone can clarify it.

Thanks

set policy-options policy-statement My-Term term term 40 from community community-111
set policy-options policy-statement My-Term term term 40 from community community-112
set policy-options policy-statement My-Term term term 40 from community community-113
set policy-options policy-statement My-Term term term 40 then metric 20
set policy-options policy-statement My-Term term term 40 then community set community-no-export
set policy-options policy-statement My-Term term term 40 then accept

set policy-options community community-111 members 111:222
set policy-options community community-111 members 111:333

set policy-options community community-112 members 112:222
set policy-options community community-112 members 112:333

set policy-options community community-113 members 113:222
set policy-options community community-113 members 113:333

Hi,

It is really a tricky question, and same came to my mind while I was preparing for my JNCIE Lab exam.

Community member under the same community name will be AND operation, and different communities name specified in the policy will be in the OR operation. In summary.

In summary your policy will be behave like:

If {(111:222 AND 111:333)OR(112:222 AND 112:333)OR(113:222 AND 113:333)}

then {

accept

metric 20

community-no-export

}

Regards

Satinder Singh

Thanks Satinder.

Hi Satinder,

Does the router perform an OR or AND operation, with the below syntax? 

set policy-options community community-111 members "111:222 111:333"

Router will perform AND operation. If you need OR operation you can use syntax given below:

set policy-options community community-111 members "111:222|111:333"

Thank you for the response.

Quick question - if i have 3 communites like "111:111 111:222 111:333"

Does the router look at the order of communities ?

Thank you for your time in advance!

No, It can be any order.