Sessions and Peers............................................................................................................................193
Establish a Session.......................................................................................................................194
Route Reflectors................................................................................................................................194
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................... 195
Best Path Selection Criteria........................................................................................................ 196
Weight..........................................................................................................................................198
Local Preference......................................................................................................................... 198
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)................................................................................................199
Origin...........................................................................................................................................200
AS Path.........................................................................................................................................201
Next Hop......................................................................................................................................201
Multiprotocol BGP............................................................................................................................ 202
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS.......................................................................................202
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support...........................................................................................202
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes................................................................202
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations................................................................. 203
Four-Byte AS Numbers...............................................................................................................203
AS4 Number Representation......................................................................................................204
AS Number Migration................................................................................................................. 205
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)..............................................................................207
Important Points to Remember..................................................................................................207
Configuration Information............................................................................................................... 208
BGP Configuration........................................................................................................................... 208
Enabling BGP.............................................................................................................................. 209
Configuring AS4 Number Representations................................................................................ 213
Configuring Peer Groups............................................................................................................ 215
Configuring BGP Fast Fall-Over..................................................................................................217
Configuring Passive Peering....................................................................................................... 219
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration....................................................... 220
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path..............................................................221
Enabling Graceful Restart........................................................................................................... 222
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...........................................................................................223
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute................................................................................................223
Regular Expressions as Filters.....................................................................................................225
Redistributing Routes..................................................................................................................226
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................... 227
Configuring IP Community Lists.................................................................................................227
Configuring an IP Extended Community List............................................................................ 229
Filtering Routes with Community Lists...................................................................................... 230
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute.................................................................................. 230
Changing MED Attributes........................................................................................................... 232
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute.......................................................................... 232
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