Concept Guide
Following is the sample output for show ip bgp summary command for Router B.
RouterB#show ip bgp summary
BGP router identifier 172.17.1.99, local 45000
BGP local RIB : Routes to be Added 0, Replaced 0, Withdrawn 0
1 neighbor(s) using 40960 bytes of memory
Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/Pfx
192.168.1.2 40000 10 20 0 0 0 00:06:11 0
BGP peer group
To congure multiple BGP neighbors at one time, create and populate a BGP peer group.
If you want to congure multiple BGP neighbors with similar policies (route maps, distribute lists, and so on), you can group the respective
neighbors under a peer group. A peer group contains a set of BGP neighbors which share common congurations. You can group neighbors
that share congurations in a BGP peer group to simplify neighbor conguration. An advantage of peer groups is that members of a peer
group inherit the conguration properties of the group and share same update policy.
Dell EMC Networking OS allows a maximum of 256 peer groups.
Tasks involved in conguring a BGP peer group:
• Create a peer group by assigning it a name
• Adding members (neighbors) to the peer group
Conguration rules in a peer group:
• You must create a peer group rst before adding the neighbors in the peer group.
• If you remove any conguration parameters from a peer group, it will apply to all the neighbors congured under that peer group.
• If you have not congured a parameter for an individual neighbor in the peer group, the neighbor uses the value congured in the peer
group.
• If you reset any parameter for an individual neighbor, it will override the value set in the peer group.
• If you add a conguration parameters to a peer group that already has neighbors, the parameter value is applied to all the neighbors
which does not have the value set. If a neighbor has a value explicitly set, the value overrides the value set for the peer group.
• You cannot remove the remote AS conguration from the peer group, if the peer group has neighbors.
• If you remove any parameter value in a peer group, the value of the parameter is set to the default for all the neighbors in the peer
group, unless there is an explicit parameter set for an individual neighbor.
After you create a peer group, you can congure route policies for it. For information about conguring route policies for a peer group, refer
to Filtering BGP Routes. See Example-Conguring BGP peer groups for conguring multiple BGP neighbors and enabling peer groups.
Conguring Peer Groups
To congure a peer group, use the following commands.
1 Enter the router conguration mode and the AS number.
CONFIG mode
router bgp as-number
2 Create a peer group by assigning a name to it.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode
neighbor peer-group-name peer-group
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
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