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Border Gateway Protocol
Platforms support BGP according to the following table:
This chapter is intended to provide a general description of Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4) as
it is supported in the Force10 Operating System (FTOS).
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Protocol Overview
• Autonomous Systems (AS)
• Sessions and Peers
• Route Reflectors
• Confederations
• BGP Attributes
• Best Path Selection Criteria
• Weight
• Local Preference
• Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)
• AS Path
• Next Hop
FTOS version Platform support
IPv4: 8.3.11.2
IPv6: 9.0.0.0
Z9000
z
8.3.7.0 S4810
8.1.1.0 E-Series ExaScale
e
x
7.8.1.0 S-Series
s
7.7.1.0. C-Series
c
pre-7.7.1.0 E-Series TeraScale
e
t