Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(14)S

This feature module describes the BGP Named Community Lists feature and includes the following 
sections:

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) communities are attributes that are used to group and filter routes. 
Communities are designed to give the network operator the ability to apply policies to large numbers of 
routes by using match and set clauses in the configuration of route maps. Community lists are used in 
this process to identify and filter routes by their common attributes. 

The BGP Named Community Lists feature introduces a new type of community list called the named 
community list. The BGP Named Community Lists feature allows the network operator to assign 
meaningful names to community lists and increases the number of community lists that can be 
configured. A named community list can be configured with regular expressions and with numbered 

12.0(10)S

This feature was introduced.

12.0(16)ST

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.0(16)ST.

12.1(9)E

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.1(9)E.

12.2(8)T

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)T.

12.2(14)S

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(14)S.