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Technical Tip: BGP extended community RT and SOO supported option in FortiGate

Description

This article provides information regarding the supported option for BGP extended community RT and SOO in FortiGate.

Scope

FortiGate, BGP.

Solution

The extended community RT and SOO can be set in a route-map, but the route-map cannot match the remote peer.

By design, FortiGate does not support an extended community match in a route-map.

BGP Test Topology:

FG101F-6 (10.109.16.249) --------- BGP ------ (10.109.21.109) universe-esx21 (FortiGate VM)

Route-map config on FG101F-6: The Extended community RT and SOO can be set.

BGP config and Remote end:

Getting extended community SOO and RT from the neighbor 10.109.16.249:

There is no option in the route-map to match extended community. There is only an option to set extended community.

Note: FortiOS v7.2.0 and above FortiGates support the L3VPN(RD, RT) feature. Refer to the following document for more information.

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