BGP Flowspec Traffic Filtering Actions

The following extended community values specify particular actions for traffic matching the flow specification in the NLRI.

Table 1. BGP flowspec traffic filtering actions

Type

Extended community value

Encoding

0x8006

traffic-rate

2-byte as#, 4-byte float

0x8007

traffic-action

bitmask

0x8009

traffic-marking

DSCP value

0x0800 or 0x080C

redirect IPv4

4 byte IPv4