Adjusting and Optimizing a BGP Network
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Adjusting and
Optimizing a BGP
Network
Adjusting and optimizing BGP network involves the following aspects:
1
BGP clock
BGP peers send Keepalive messages to each other periodically through the
connections between them to make sure the connections operate properly. If a
router does not receive the Keepalive or any other message from its peer in a
specific period (know as Holdtime), the router considers the BGP connection
operates improperly and thus disconnects the BGP connection.
When establishing a BGP connection, the two routers negotiate for the Holdtime
by comparing their Holdtime values and take the smaller one as the Holdtime.
2
Limiting the number of route prefixes to be received from the peer/peer group
By limiting the number of route prefixes to be received from the specified
peer/peer group, you can control the size of the local routing table, thus
optimizing the performance of local router system and protecting local routers.
When the number of route prefixes received exceeds the configured value, a
router enabled with this function is automatically disconnected from the peer/peer
group.
3
BGP connection reset
To make a new BGP routing policy taking effect, you need to reset the BGP
connection. This temporarily disconnects the BGP connection. In the Switch 7750,
BGP supports the route-refresh function. With route-refresh function enabled on
all the BGP routers, if BGP routing policy changes, the local router sends refresh
messages to its peers. And the peers receiving the message in turn send their
routing information to the local router. In this way, you can apply new routing
policies and have the routing table dynamically updated seamlessly.
Use the
refresh bgp
command to reset the BGP connections manually. This
method can also refresh BGP routing tables and apply a new routing policy
seamlessly.
4
BGP authentication
BGP uses TCP as the transport layer protocol. To improve the security of BGP
connections, you can specify to perform MD5 authentication when a TCP
connection is established. Note that the MD5 authentication of BGP does not
authenticate the BGP packets. It only configures the MD5 authentication
password for TCP connection, and the authentication is performed by TCP. If
authentication fails, the TCP connection cannot be established.
Configuration
Prerequisites
You need to perform the following configuration before adjusting the BGP clock.
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Enable basic BGP functions
Before configuring BGP clock and authentication, make sure the following
information is available.
Summary of Contents for Switch 7754
Page 32: ...32 CHAPTER 1 CLI OVERVIEW ...
Page 70: ...70 CHAPTER 5 LOGGING IN USING MODEM ...
Page 76: ...76 CHAPTER 7 LOGGING IN THROUGH NMS ...
Page 86: ...86 CHAPTER 9 CONFIGURATION FILE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 120: ...120 CHAPTER 13 ISOLATE USER VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 126: ...126 CHAPTER 14 SUPER VLAN ...
Page 136: ...136 CHAPTER 16 IP PERFORMANCE CONFIGURATION ...
Page 152: ...152 CHAPTER 17 IPX CONFIGURATION ...
Page 164: ...164 CHAPTER 19 QINQ CONFIGURATION ...
Page 172: ...172 CHAPTER 21 SHARED VLAN CONFIGURATION ...
Page 182: ...182 CHAPTER 22 PORT BASIC CONFIGURATION ...
Page 198: ...198 CHAPTER 24 PORT ISOLATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 208: ...208 CHAPTER 25 PORT SECURITY CONFIGURATION ...
Page 224: ...224 CHAPTER 27 DLDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 232: ...232 CHAPTER 28 MAC ADDRESS TABLE MANAGEMENT ...
Page 240: ...240 CHAPTER 29 CENTRALIZED MAC ADDRESS AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION ...
Page 280: ...280 CHAPTER 30 MSTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 348: ...348 CHAPTER 35 IS IS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 408: ...408 CHAPTER 39 802 1X CONFIGURATION ...
Page 412: ...412 CHAPTER 40 HABP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 422: ...422 CHAPTER 41 MULTICAST OVERVIEW ...
Page 426: ...426 CHAPTER 42 GMRP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 480: ...480 CHAPTER 47 PIM CONFIGURATION ...
Page 506: ...506 CHAPTER 48 MSDP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 552: ...552 CHAPTER 51 TRAFFIC ACCOUNTING CONFIGURATION ...
Page 570: ...570 CHAPTER 53 HA CONFIGURATION ...
Page 582: ...582 CHAPTER 54 ARP CONFIGURATION SwitchA arp protective down recover interval 200 ...
Page 622: ...622 CHAPTER 58 DHCP RELAY AGENT CONFIGURATION ...
Page 684: ...684 CHAPTER 61 QOS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 718: ...718 CHAPTER 63 CLUSTER ...
Page 738: ...738 CHAPTER 67 UDP HELPER CONFIGURATION ...
Page 752: ...752 CHAPTER 69 RMON CONFIGURATION ...
Page 772: ...772 CHAPTER 70 NTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 796: ...796 CHAPTER 72 FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ...
Page 802: ...802 CHAPTER 73 BIMS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 814: ...814 CHAPTER 74 FTP AND TFTP CONFIGURATION ...
Page 830: ...830 CHAPTER 75 INFORMATION CENTER ...
Page 836: ...836 CHAPTER 76 DNS CONFIGURATION ...
Page 852: ...852 CHAPTER 77 BOOTROM AND HOST SOFTWARE LOADING ...
Page 858: ...858 CHAPTER 78 BASIC SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DEBUGGING ...