Autonomous Systems (AS)...................................................................................................202
Sessions and Peers.................................................................................................................205
Establish a Session........................................................................................................... 205
Route Reflectors.................................................................................................................... 206
BGP Attributes.........................................................................................................................207
Best Path Selection Criteria............................................................................................207
Weight.................................................................................................................................210
Local Preference...............................................................................................................210
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)................................................................................... 211
Origin...................................................................................................................................212
AS Path................................................................................................................................ 212
Next Hop.............................................................................................................................213
Multiprotocol BGP..................................................................................................................213
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS........................................................................214
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support............................................................................. 214
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes............................................... 214
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation.................................................................215
Four-Byte AS Numbers....................................................................................................215
AS4 Number Representation..........................................................................................216
AS Number Migration.......................................................................................................217
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)...............................................................219
Important Points to Remember.....................................................................................219
Configuration Information...................................................................................................220
BGP Configuration................................................................................................................. 221
Enabling BGP.....................................................................................................................222
Configuring AS4 Number Representations.................................................................225
Configuring Peer Groups................................................................................................227
Configuring BGP Fast Fall-Over....................................................................................230
Configuring Passive Peering...........................................................................................231
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration......................................232
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path............................................ 233
Enabling Graceful Restart...............................................................................................234
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart.............................................................................235
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute.................................................................................. 236
Regular Expressions as Filters........................................................................................ 237
Redistributing Routes...................................................................................................... 239
Enabling Additional Paths...............................................................................................240
Configuring IP Community Lists...................................................................................240
Configuring an IP Extended Community List............................................................. 241
Filtering Routes with Community Lists........................................................................242
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute....................................................................243
Changing MED Attributes............................................................................................... 245
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