HP VPN Firewall Appliances Network Management Configuration Guide

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Command Remarks
3. Create an EBGP peer
group.
group group-name external N/A
4. Add a peer into the EBGP
peer group.
peer ip-address group
group-name as-number
as-number
N/A
5. Enable a peer.
peer ip-address enable
Optional.
Enabled by default.
6. Configure a description for
a peer group.
peer group-name description
description-text
Optional.
By default, no description is
configured for the peer group.
Specifying the source interface for TCP connections
By default, BGP uses the output interface of the optimal route to a peer or peer group as the source
interface for establishing TCP connections to the peer or peer group, and it uses the primary IP address
of the output interface as the source IP address of TCP connections. You can change the source interface
(primary IP address) for TCP connections in the following scenarios:
• If the peer's IP address belongs to an interface indirectly connected to the local router, you must
specify that interface as the source interface for TCP connections on the peer. For example, interface
A on the local end is directly connected to interface B on the peer. If you execute the peer x.x.x.x
as-number as-number command in which x.x.x.x is not the IP address of interface B on the local
end, you must use the peer connect-interface command on the peer to specify the interface whose
IP address is x.x.x.x as the source interface for establishing a TCP connection.
• On a BGP router that has multiple links to a peer, if the source interface fails, BGP has to reestablish
TCP connections. To avoid this problem, use a loopback interface as the source interface.
• To establish multiple BGP sessions between two routers, you must specify the source interface for
establishing TCP connections to each peer on the local router. Otherwise, the local BGP router
might fail to establish a TCP connection to a peer when using the outbound interface of the best
route to the peer as the source interface.
To specify the source interface for TCP connections:
Ste
p
Command Remarks
1. Enter system view.
system-view N/A
2. Enter BGP view or
BGP-VPN instance
view.
• Enter BGP view:
bgp as-number
• Enter BGP-VPN instance view:
a. bgp as-number
b. ipv4-family vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name
Use either method.
3. Specify the source
interface for
establishing TCP
connections to a peer
or peer group.
peer { group-name | ip-address }
connect-interface interface-type
interface-number
By default, BGP uses the outbound
interface of the best route to the BGP peer
or peer group as the source interface for
establishing a TCP connection to the peer
or peer group.