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Tasks at a glance
Remarks
(Optional.)
Controlling BGP path selection
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Specifying a preferred value for routes received
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Configuring preferences for BGP routes
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Configuring the default local preference
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Configuring the MED attribute
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Configuring the NEXT_HOP attribute
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Configuring the AS_PATH attribute
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Configuring the SoO attribute
N/A
(Optional.)
Tuning and optimizing BGP networks
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Configuring the keepalive interval and hold time
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Configuring the interval for sending updates for the same route
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Enabling BGP to establish an EBGP session over multiple hops
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Enabling immediate reestablishment of direct EBGP connections upon link failure
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Enabling 4-byte AS number suppression
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Enabling MD5 authentication for BGP peers
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Configuring BGP load balancing
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Configuring IPsec for IPv6 BGP
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Disabling BGP to establish a session to a peer or peer group
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Configuring GTSM for BGP
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Configuring BGP soft-reset
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Protecting an EBGP peer when memory usage reaches level 2 threshold
N/A
(Optional.)
Configuring a large-scale BGP network
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Configuring BGP community
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Configuring BGP route reflection
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Ignoring the ORIGINATOR_ID attribute
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Configuring a BGP confederation
N/A
(Optional.)
Configuring BGP GR
N/A
(Optional.)
Enabling SNMP notifications for BGP
N/A
(Optional.)
Enabling logging of session state changes
N/A
(Optional.)
Configuring BFD for BGP
N/A
(Optional.)
Configuring BGP FRR
N/A
(Optional.)
Configuring 6PE
IPv6 multicast does not
support 6PE.
Configuring basic BGP
This section describes the basic settings required for a BGP network to run.
Enabling BGP
A router ID is the unique identifier of a BGP router in an AS.