Administrator Guide

Congure BFD for VRRP.........................................................................................................................................164
Conguring Protocol Liveness................................................................................................................................ 167
Troubleshooting BFD................................................................................................................................................ 167
9 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4).................................................................................................... 169
Autonomous Systems (AS)...........................................................................................................................................169
Sessions and Peers......................................................................................................................................................... 171
Establish a Session....................................................................................................................................................171
Route Reectors.............................................................................................................................................................172
BGP Attributes................................................................................................................................................................173
Best Path Selection Criteria.................................................................................................................................... 173
Weight........................................................................................................................................................................175
Local Preference....................................................................................................................................................... 175
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)...........................................................................................................................176
Origin.......................................................................................................................................................................... 177
AS Path...................................................................................................................................................................... 178
Next Hop................................................................................................................................................................... 178
Multiprotocol BGP.......................................................................................................................................................... 178
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS...................................................................................................................179
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support......................................................................................................................179
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes........................................................................................ 179
Ignore Router-ID in Best-Path Calculation............................................................................................................ 180
Four-Byte AS Numbers........................................................................................................................................... 180
AS4 Number Representation.................................................................................................................................. 180
AS Number Migration.............................................................................................................................................. 182
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)........................................................................................................183
Important Points to Remember.............................................................................................................................. 183
Conguration Information..............................................................................................................................................184
BGP Conguration......................................................................................................................................................... 184
Enabling BGP............................................................................................................................................................ 185
Conguring AS4 Number Representations........................................................................................................... 188
Conguring Peer Groups.........................................................................................................................................190
Conguring BGP Fast Fall-Over.............................................................................................................................192
Conguring Passive Peering................................................................................................................................... 194
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration.................................................................................194
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path.......................................................................................195
Enabling Graceful Restart....................................................................................................................................... 196
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart.......................................................................................................................197
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute............................................................................................................................197
Regular Expressions as Filters.................................................................................................................................199
Redistributing Routes..............................................................................................................................................200
Enabling Additional Paths........................................................................................................................................ 201
Conguring IP Community Lists............................................................................................................................. 201
Conguring an IP Extended Community List....................................................................................................... 202
Filtering Routes with Community Lists................................................................................................................. 203
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute............................................................................................................204
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