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Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)

Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4) version 4 (BGPv4) is supported on platforms: e c s

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 Dell 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

FTOS version Platform support

8.3.19.0 S4820T

8.3.11.1 Z9000

8.3.7.0 S4810

8.1.1.0 E-Series ExaScale

7.8.1.0 S-Series

7.7.1.0. C-Series

pre-7.7.1.0 E-Series TeraScale

S4820T