Sessions and Peers............................................................................................................................192
Establish a Session.......................................................................................................................193
Route Reflectors................................................................................................................................193
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................... 194
Best Path Selection Criteria.........................................................................................................195
Weight..........................................................................................................................................197
Local Preference..........................................................................................................................197
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)................................................................................................198
Origin........................................................................................................................................... 199
AS Path........................................................................................................................................ 200
Next Hop.....................................................................................................................................200
Multiprotocol BGP............................................................................................................................ 201
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS.......................................................................................201
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support........................................................................................... 201
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes................................................................ 201
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................... 202
Four-Byte AS Numbers...............................................................................................................202
AS4 Number Representation......................................................................................................203
AS Number Migration................................................................................................................. 204
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)..............................................................................206
Important Points to Remember................................................................................................. 206
Configuration Information............................................................................................................... 207
BGP Configuration............................................................................................................................207
Enabling BGP.............................................................................................................................. 208
Configuring AS4 Number Representations................................................................................ 212
Configuring Peer Groups............................................................................................................ 214
Configuring BGP Fast Fall-Over..................................................................................................216
Configuring Passive Peering....................................................................................................... 218
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration........................................................219
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path............................................................. 220
Enabling Graceful Restart............................................................................................................221
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...........................................................................................222
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute................................................................................................222
Regular Expressions as Filters.....................................................................................................224
Redistributing Routes..................................................................................................................225
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................... 226
Configuring IP Community Lists................................................................................................ 226
Configuring an IP Extended Community List............................................................................ 228
Filtering Routes with Community Lists...................................................................................... 229
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute...................................................................................229
Changing MED Attributes............................................................................................................231
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute...........................................................................231
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