Service Manual
Parameters
as-number Enter the AS number. The range is from 0 to 65535 (2 byte), from 1 to 4294967295 (4
byte), or from 0.1 to 65535.65535 (dotted format).
Defaults Not congured.
Command Modes ROUTER BGP
Command History
This guide is platform-specic. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell Networking
OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000–ON.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.8.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.7.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series. Added support for the 4-byte format
Usage Information
To accept 4-byte formats before entering a 4-byte AS number, congure your system. All the routers in the
Confederation must be 4 byte or 2 byte identied routers. You cannot mix them.
The autonomous systems congured in this command are visible to the EBGP neighbors. Each autonomous system
is fully meshed and contains a few connections to other autonomous systems. The next hop, MED, and local
preference information is preserved throughout the confederation.
Dell Networking OS accepts confederation EBGP peers without a LOCAL_PREF attribute. The software sends
AS_CONFED_SET and accepts AS_CONFED_SET and AS_CONF_SEQ.
If a local-as is congured, BGP does not allow for the conguration of BGP confederation. Similarly, if BGP
confederation is congured, then BGP does not allow the conguration of local-as.
If the neighbor is an eBGP neighbor, then BGP performs a check on the rst AS number. In this scenario, it is
mandatory that the rst sequence in the AS path is of type AS_SEQUENCE or AS_CONFED_SEQUENCE (in the
case of confederations). If the rst entry appears as an AS_CONFED_SET and the neighbor is not in the local AS,
then this is strictly a problem with the neighbor node.
This command automatically restarts the BGP instance for the conguration to take eect.
Related Commands
• bgp four-octet-as-support — enable 4-byte support for the BGP process.
348 Border Gateway Protocol