H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches Operation Manual

Operation Manual – Routing Protocol
H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches Chapter 6 BGP Configuration
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z Interval for sending the update packets
z MD5 authentication password
6.6.2 Adjusting and Optimizing a BGP Network
Follow these steps to adjust and optimize a BGP network:
To do...
Use the
command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enter BGP view
bgp as-number
—
Configure the
Keepalive
time and
Holdtime of
BGP.
timer keepalive
keepalive-interval
hold
holdtime-interval
Configure
BGP timer
Configure the
Keepalive
time and
holdtime of a
specified
peer/peer
group.
peer { group-name |
ip-address } timer
keepalive
keepalive-interval
hold
holdtime-interval
Optional
By default, the keepalive
time is 60 seconds, and
holdtime is 180 seconds.
The priority of the timer
configured by the timer
command is lower than
that of the timer
configured by the peer
time command.
Configure the interval at which
a peer group sends the same
route update packet
peer group-name
route-update-interv
al seconds
Optional
By default, the interval at
which a peer group sends
the same route update
packet to IBGP peers is
15 seconds, and to EBGP
peers is 30 seconds.
return
—
refresh bgp { all |
ip-address | group
group-name }
{ export | import }
Optional
system-view
Perform soft refreshment of
BGP connection manually
bgp as-number
Enter BGP view again
Configure BGP to perform
MD5 authentication when
establishing TCP connection
peer { group-name |
ip-address }
password { cipher |
simple } password
Optional
By default, BGP dose not
perform MD5
authentication when
establishing TCP
connection.