# Cisco IOS/XE 17.16.01a Stops Propagating Standard BGP Communities

DevFeed: [Cisco IOS/XE 17.16.01a Stops Propagating Standard BGP Communities](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bgp-community-propagation-on-cisco-ios-xe-the-90-s-called-11225.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/08/cisco-ios-community-propagation/>)

Published: 2025-08-11T06:09:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [Cisco](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cisco.md>)

Tags: [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [cisco](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cisco.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [router](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/router.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports that Cisco IOS/XE 17.16.01a no longer propagates standard BGP communities when the previously effective neighbor send-community configuration is used. The behavior worked in earlier releases, including at least IOS/XE 17.15.01.

## Source excerpt

Just when I thought no vendor stupidity peculiarity could surprise me, Cisco IOS/XE proved me wrong. I was improving a completely unrelated BGP functionality. I ran BGP integration tests on Cisco IOL (because it's the fastest one to boot), and the BGP community propagation test failed. After verifying that I did not change the template and that the data structures had not changed, I checked the IOL release I was using. Surprise 🎉🎉: the neighbor send-community configurations that worked since (at least) the IOS Classic release 15.x stopped working in Cisco IOS/XE release 17.16.01a. Read more ...