Connectivity Guide

Usage
Information
All the routers in the Confederation must be 4 byte or 2 byte identified routers. You cannot mix them.
The autonomous systems configured in this command are visible to the EBGP neighbors. Each
autonomous system is fully meshed and contains a few connections to other autonomous systems.
After specifying autonomous systems numbers for the BGP confederation, recycle the peers to update
their configuration.
Related
Commands
● bgp confederation identifier — configure a confederation ID.
● bgp four-octet-as-support — enable 4-byte support for the BGP process.
bgp connection-retry-timer
Configures the BGP connection retry timer.
Syntax
bgp connection-retry-timer retry-timer-value
To return to the default configuration, enter the no connection-retry-timer retry-timer-
value command.
Parameters
retry-timer-value Enter a value that denotes the time interval after which the session retries the
connection. The valid range is from 10 to 65535.
Defaults 60 seconds.
Command Modes ROUTER BGP
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell
EMC Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S6010-ON and S4048T-ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.4.(0.0) Introduced on the S4810.
bgp dampening
Enable BGP route dampening and configure the dampening parameters.
Syntax
bgp dampening [half-life reuse suppress max-suppress-time] [route-map map-
name]
To disable route dampening, use the no bgp dampening [half-life reuse suppress max-
suppress-time] [route-map map-name] command.
Parameters
half-life (OPTIONAL) Enter the number of minutes after which the Penalty is decreased.
After the router assigns a Penalty of 1024 to a route, the Penalty is decreased by
half after the half-life period expires. The range is from 1 to 45. The default is 15
minutes.
reuse (OPTIONAL) Enter a number as the reuse value, which is compared to the flapping
route’s Penalty value. If the Penalty value is less than the reuse value, the flapping
route is once again advertised (or no longer suppressed). The range is from 1 to
20000. The default is 750.
suppress (OPTIONAL) Enter a number as the suppress value, which is compared to the
flapping route’s Penalty value. If the Penalty value is greater than the suppress
value, the flapping route is no longer advertised (that is, it is suppressed). The
range is from 1 to 20000. The default is 2000.
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