AS Path......................................................................................................................................................................154
Next Hop...................................................................................................................................................................155
Multiprotocol BGP..........................................................................................................................................................155
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................155
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................155
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 156
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 156
Four-Byte AS Numbers........................................................................................................................................... 156
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 157
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 158
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................160
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 160
Conguration Information.............................................................................................................................................. 161
BGP Conguration.......................................................................................................................................................... 161
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 162
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 165
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................166
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................169
Conguring Passive Peering....................................................................................................................................170
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration.................................................................................. 171
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path....................................................................................... 172
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................172
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute........................................................................................................................... 173
Regular Expressions as Filters.................................................................................................................................174
Redistributing Routes...............................................................................................................................................176
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................ 176
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................. 177
Conguring an IP Extended Community List........................................................................................................ 178
Filtering Routes with Community Lists.................................................................................................................. 179
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute.............................................................................................................179
Changing MED Attributes........................................................................................................................................ 181
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute................................................................................................... 181
Changing the NEXT_HOP Attribute...................................................................................................................... 182
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute............................................................................................................................182
Enabling Multipath....................................................................................................................................................183
Filtering BGP Routes................................................................................................................................................183
Filtering BGP Routes Using Route Maps...............................................................................................................184
Filtering BGP Routes Using AS-PATH Information.............................................................................................. 185
Conguring BGP Route Reectors........................................................................................................................ 185
Aggregating Routes..................................................................................................................................................186
Conguring BGP Confederations...........................................................................................................................186
Enabling Route Flap Dampening............................................................................................................................. 187
Changing BGP Timers............................................................................................................................................. 189
Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconguration..................................................................................................... 190
Route Map Continue.................................................................................................................................................191
Enabling MBGP Congurations.....................................................................................................................................191
BGP Regular Expression Optimization.........................................................................................................................192
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