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FTOS Configuration Guide for the C-Series - Force10 Networks

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Chapter 25 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)<br />

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is supported on plat<strong>for</strong>ms: c e<br />

This chapter is intended to provide a general description of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as it is<br />

supported in <strong>the</strong> Force 10 Operating System (<strong>FTOS</strong>). It is not intended to provide a complete<br />

understanding of BGP; refer to <strong>the</strong> RFC 4271, BGP Version 4 <strong>for</strong> a complete discussion of this protocol.<br />

This chapter includes <strong>the</strong> following topics:<br />

• Protocol Overview<br />

• Autonomous Systems (AS)<br />

• Sessions and Peers<br />

• Route Reflectors, Route Reflectors, Confederations<br />

• BGP Attributes<br />

• Best Path Selection Criteria<br />

• Weight<br />

• Local Preference<br />

• Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)<br />

• AS Path<br />

• Next Hop<br />

• Implementing BGP with <strong>FTOS</strong><br />

• 4-Byte AS Numbers<br />

• AS Number Migration<br />

• BGP4 Management In<strong>for</strong>mation Base (MIB)<br />

• Important Points to Remember<br />

• <strong>Configuration</strong> In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

• <strong>Configuration</strong> Task List <strong>for</strong> BGP<br />

• MBGP <strong>Configuration</strong><br />

• Storing Last and Bad PDUs, Capturing PDUs, PDU Counters<br />

• Sample <strong>Configuration</strong>s<br />

<strong>FTOS</strong> <strong>Configuration</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>, version 7.7.1.0 459

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