3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

Configuring a Large Scale IPv6 BGP Network 481
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After you add an IPv6 IBGP peer to the peer group, the system will automatically
create the peer in BGP view and enable the IPv6 peer in IPv6 address family view.
Create a pure EBGP peer group
To configure a pure EBGP group, use the following commands:
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■ After you add an IPv6 EBGP peer to the peer group, the system will
automatically create the EBGP peer in BGP view and enable the EBGP peer in
IPv6 address family view.
■ To create a pure EBGP peer group, you need to specify an AS number for the
peer group.
■ If a peer was added into an EBGP peer group, you cannot specify any AS
number for the peer group.
Create a mixed EBGP peer group
To do so, use the following commands:
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Enter BGP view bgp as-number Required
Not enabled by default
Enter IPv6 address family view ipv6-family -
Create an IBGP peer group group ipv6-group-name [
internal ]
Required
Add a peer into the group peer ipv6-address group
ipv6-group-name [
as-number as-number ]
Required
Not added by default
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Enter BGP view bgp as-number Required
Not enabled by default
Enter IPv6 address family view ipv6-family -
Create an EBGP peer group group ipv6-group-name
external
Required
Configure the AS number for
the peer group
peer ipv6-group-name
as-number as-number
Required
Not configured by default
Add an IPv6 peer into the peer
group
peer ipv6-address group
ipv6-group-name
Required
Not added by default
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Enter BGP view bgp as-number Required
Not enabled by default
Enter IPv6 address family view ipv6-family -
Create an EBGP peer group group ipv6-group-name
external
Required