At the most basic level, there are only three BGP policies: pushing traffic through a specific exit point; pulling traffic through a specific entry point; preventing a remote AS (more than one AS hop away) from transiting your AS to reach a specific destination. In this series I'm going to discuss different reasons for these kinds of policies, and different ways to implement them in interdomain BGP.

In this post I'm going to cover local preference via communities, longer prefix match, and conditional advertisement from the perspective of AS65001 in the following network—

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