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title: Using BGP community tags with InterLink
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description: Learn how to use BGP community tags to set local preference for incoming traffic via Scaleway InterLink.
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h1: Using BGP community tags with InterLink
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paragraph: Learn how to use BGP community tags to set local preference for incoming traffic via Scaleway InterLink.
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tags: interlink configuration border-gateway-protocol bgp-tags local-preference local-pref
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categories:
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- interlink
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- network
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dates:
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validation: 2025-03-26
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posted: 2025-03-26
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You can use **B**order **G**ateway **P**rotocol (BGP) communities on outgoing routes (advertized by Scaleway VPC) and incoming routes (advertized by your external router). TODO CHECK?
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A BGP community is a group of IP prefixes that share a common attribute.
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Scaleway makes available three tags for the **Local Preference** attribute. This attribute lets you influence load balancing and route preference for traffic. For each prefix that you advertize over a BGP session, you can apply one of the following local preference community tags to indicate the priority of the associated path for returning traffic:
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- `12876:42050` — Low preference
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- `12876:42100` — Medium preference
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- `12876:42200` — High preference
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Local preference BGP community tags are evaluated in order from lowest to highest preference, where the highest preference is preferred.
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These tags are mutually exclusive, meaning you can only apply one of them per prefix.
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To apply these community tags, you must configure your BGP router or software to add the appropriate community to the routes you advertise.

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