In this update, peer router 37.49.237.194 on ASN 204708 sent an update saying that it had reachability to prefix 197.186.0.0/15 via itself. (next_hop: 37.49.237.194). It shows an ASPATH of "204708, 5511, 6939, 37662, 327708, 37133". The first AS in the stack is its own AS (204708) and the last AS is the original AS that originally advertised that prefix (37133). This is kind of a long AS path and includes a pretty common transit provider: Hurricane Electric (AS6939) so most routers that receive this will likely have a shorter path. They'll take this and probably disregard it as they'll have a shorter ASPATH to that prefix. The community values attached to the update could have been added by any member of the AS path (or even erased and overwritten). Their meaning is entirely subjective and there's not a whole lot of consensus on them. There's a couple of commonly used communities like "no-advertise" and "no-export" but not many. Network engineers will use policy on the routers to give those communities meaning. Some major transit providers will publish a list of BGP communities that you can use to control or filter routing on their network. NTT has a really good implementation of this: https://www.gin.ntt.net/support-center/policies-procedures/routing/ { "timestamp": 1629887371.78, "peer": "37.49.237.194", "peer_asn": "204708", "id": "21-603-7882740", "host": "rrc21", "type": "UPDATE", "path": [204708, 5511, 6939, 37662, 327708, 37133], "community": [[5511, 521], [5511, 666], [5511, 710], [5511, 5511], [64704, 51001], [64704, 53000], [64704, 53511]], "origin": "igp", "announcements": [ { "next_hop": "37.49.237.194", "prefixes": [ "197.186.0.0/15" ] } ] }