Unfortunately, this number of 100 BGP communities has no basis, at least not yet, in the RFC.
It is just a recommendation (a very healthy one, by the way) from the NLNOG team.
As far as I remember, neither the maximum mask limit of /24 for IPv4 nor /48 for IPv6 in a BGP session are defined in RFC as either must or should.
It would be good if it were in the RFCs, but it is not.
> On 12 Jul 2024, at 04:30, Ponikierski, Grzegorz via Bird-users <bird-users@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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