Sessions and Peers........................................................................................................................................................ 156
Establish a Session...................................................................................................................................................156
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................157
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................158
Best Path Selection Criteria....................................................................................................................................158
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
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................169
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 169
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 170
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 173
Conguring Peer Groups......................................................................................................................................... 175
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over............................................................................................................................. 177
Conguring 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
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................. 185
Conguring 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
Conguring the local System or a Dierent 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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