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BGP (IPv4)
Table 238 lists individual Brocade switches and the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP4) features they
support. BGP4 features are supported on FastIron X Series and Brocade FCX Series-ADV devices
running the full Layer 3 software image.
NOTE
If the Brocade FCX Series device does not have a BGP license, you cannot configure BGP with the
"router bgp" command at all. For details, see the chapter “Software-based Licensing” on page 199.
This chapter provides details on how to configure Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP4) on
Brocade products using the CLI.
BGP4 is described in RFC 1771. The Brocade implementation fully complies with RFC 1771. The
Brocade BGP4 implementation also supports the following RFCs:
• RFC 1745 (OSPF Interactions)
• RFC 1997 (BGP Communities Attributes)
• RFC 2385 (TCP MD5 Signature Option)
• RFC 2439 (Route Flap Dampening)
• RFC 2796 (Route Reflection)
TABLE 238 Supported BGP4 features
Feature FESX
FSX 800
FSX 1600
FWS FCX
(-ADV
models only)
ICX 6610 ICX 6450
BGP4 Yes No Yes Yes No
BGP Software License NoNoYesYesNo
BGP4 graceful restart Yes
(FSX 800
and FSX
1600 only)
No Yes
(FCX stack
only)
Yes
(ICX 6610
stack only)
No
BGP4 peer group Yes No Yes Yes No
Route redistribution Yes No Yes Yes No
Route aggregation Yes No Yes Yes No
BGP null0 routing Yes No Yes Yes No
Route reflection Yes No Yes Yes No
BGP filters Yes No Yes Yes No
Cooperative BGP4 route filtering Yes No Yes Yes No
Route flap dampening Yes No Yes Yes No
Multipath load sharing Yes No Yes Yes No
Traps for BGP4 Yes No Yes Yes No