Dell Force10 Z9000, Reference Manual

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neighbor peer-group passive
Enable passive peering on a BGP peer group, that is, the peer group does not send an OPEN message, but will respond
to one.
C-Series, E-Series, S-Series, Z-Series, S4810
Syntax neighbor peer-group-name peer-group passive [limit sessions ]
To delete a passive peer-group, use the
no neighbor peer-group-name peer-
group passive
command.
Parameters
peer-group-name
Enter a text string up to 16 characters long as the name of the peer
group.
limit (Optional, S4810 only) Enter the keyword
limit
to constrain the
numbers of sessions for this peer-group. The range is 2 to 256. The
default is 256.
Defaults Not configured.
Command Modes ROUTER BGP
Command History
Version 8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
Version 8.3.8.0 Introduced the
limit
keyword on the S4810.
Version 8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
Version 7.8.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
Version 7.7.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
Usage
Information
After you configure a peer group as passive, you must assign it a subnet using the
neighbor
soft-reconfiguration inbound
command.
For passive eBGP limits, the Remote AS must be different from the AS for this neighbor.
Related
Commands
neighbor soft-reconfiguration inbound – assigns a subnet to a dynamically-configured BGP
neighbor.
neighbor remote-as – assigns an indirectly connected AS to a neighbor or peer group.
neighbor remote-as
Create and specify the remote peer to the BGP neighbor.
C-Series, E-Series, S-Series, Z-Series, S4810
Syntax neighbor { ip-address | peer-group-name } remote-as number
To delete a remote AS entry, use the
no neighbor { ip-address | peer-group-
name } remote-as number
command.
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