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5.
In the Nexthop field, click the on button next to EBGP Multihop to enable
the multihop option, and then click
A
PPLY
.
6.
(Optional) Enter a value in the TTL edit box to set the number of hops
over which the EBGP multihop session is established. The default value
is 64 and the range is 1-255. Click
A
PPLY
.
Verification
To verify that you have configured load balancing correctly, run the following
commands in ICLID. For more information on these commands, go to
Displaying Routing Protocol Information.
show bgp neighbor
show route bgp
Adjusting BGP Timers Example
1.
Configure a BGP neighbor as in the “BGP Neighbors Example.”
2.
Click the peer IP address link to configure peer-specific parameters.
3. Enter a value in seconds in the H
OLDTIME
edit box.
Holdtime indicates the maximum number of seconds that may elapse
between the receipt of successive keepalive and/or update messages by
the sender before the peer is declared dead. It must be either zero or at
least 3 seconds.
The default value is 180 seconds
4.
Enter a value in seconds in the
K
EEPALIVE
edit box; then click A
PPLY
.
BGP does not use any transport-protocol-based keepalive mechanism to
determine if peers are reachable. Instead, keepalive messages are
exchanged between peers to determine if the peer is still reachable.
The default value is 60 seconds.
To make your changes permanent, click S
AVE
.