Sessions and Peers........................................................................................................................................................ 156
Establish a Session...................................................................................................................................................156
Route Reflectors............................................................................................................................................................ 157
BGP Attributes............................................................................................................................................................... 158
Best Path Selection Criteria....................................................................................................................................159
Weight....................................................................................................................................................................... 160
Local Preference...................................................................................................................................................... 160
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)........................................................................................................................... 161
Origin..........................................................................................................................................................................162
AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................163
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 163
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................163
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................164
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support..................................................................................................................... 164
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................164
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation........................................................................................................... 165
Four-Byte AS Numbers...........................................................................................................................................165
AS4 Number Representation..................................................................................................................................165
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 167
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)....................................................................................................... 168
Important Points to Remember..............................................................................................................................168
Configuration Information............................................................................................................................................. 169
BGP Configuration......................................................................................................................................................... 169
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 170
Configuring AS4 Number Representations...........................................................................................................173
Configuring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................175
Configuring BGP Fast Fall-Over............................................................................................................................. 177
Configuring Passive Peering................................................................................................................................... 179
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration.................................................................................179
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path.......................................................................................180
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................181
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute...........................................................................................................................182
Regular Expressions as Filters................................................................................................................................ 183
Redistributing Routes.............................................................................................................................................. 184
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................185
Configuring IP Community Lists.............................................................................................................................185
Configuring an IP Extended Community List........................................................................................................186
Filtering Routes with Community Lists..................................................................................................................187
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute.............................................................................................................188
Changing MED Attributes....................................................................................................................................... 189
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute..................................................................................................190
Configuring the local System or a Different System to be the Next Hop for BGP-Learned Routes............190
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute............................................................................................................................ 191
Enabling Multipath.................................................................................................................................................... 191
Filtering BGP Routes............................................................................................................................................... 192
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