Administrator Guide

with the most recent). Furthermore, in non-deterministic mode, the software may not compare MED attributes though the paths
are from the same AS.
• Change the best path selection method to non-deterministic.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode
bgp non-deterministic-med
NOTE: When you change the best path selection method, path selection for existing paths remains unchanged until
you reset it by entering the clear ip bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode.
Example of Conguring a Route for Reuse or Restart
Example of Viewing the Number of Dampened Routes
To view the BGP conguration, use the show config command in CONFIGURATION ROUTER BGP mode or the show
running-config bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode.
The following example shows how to congure values to reuse or restart a route. In the following example, default = 15 is the
set time before the value decrements, bgp dampening 2 ? is the set re-advertise value, bgp dampening 2 2000 ? is the
suppress value, and bgp dampening 2 2000 3000 ? is the time to suppress a route. Default values are also shown.
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening ?
<1-45> Half-life time for the penalty (default = 15)
route-map Route-map to specify criteria for dampening
<cr>
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#
bgp dampening 2 ?
<1-20000> Value to start reusing a route (default = 750)
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 2000 ?
<1-20000> Value to start suppressing a route (default = 2000)
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 2000 3000 ?
<1-255> Maximum duration to suppress a stable route (default = 60)
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 2000 3000 10 ?
route-map Route-map to specify criteria for dampening
<cr>
To view a count of dampened routes, history routes, and penalized routes when you enable route dampening, look at the seventh line
of the show ip bgp summary command output, as shown in the following example (bold).
Dell>show ip bgp summary
BGP router identifier 10.114.8.131, local AS number 65515
BGP table version is 855562, main routing table version 780266
122836 network entrie(s) and 221664 paths using 29697640 bytes of memory
34298 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 1920688 bytes of memory
29577 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 1384403 bytes of memory
184 BGP community entrie(s) using 7616 bytes of memory
Dampening enabled. 0 history paths, 0 dampened paths, 0 penalized paths
Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
10.114.8.34 18508 82883 79977 780266 0 2 00:38:51 118904
10.114.8.33 18508 117265 25069 780266 0 20 00:38:50 102759
Dell>
To view which routes are dampened (non-active), use the show ip bgp dampened-routes command in EXEC Privilege mode.
Changing BGP Timers
To congure BGP timers, use either or both of the following commands.
Timer values congured with the neighbor timers command override the timer values congured with the timers bgp
command.
Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
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