474 CHAPTER 36: IPV6 BGP CONFIGURATION
Follow these steps to configure IPv6 BGP and IGP route synchronization:
Configuring Route
Dampening
Follow these steps to configure BGP route dampening:
Configuring IPv6 BGP 
Route Attributes
This section describes how to use IPv6 BGP route attributes to modify BGP routing 
policy. These attributes are:
■ IPv6 BGP protocol preference
■ Default LOCAL_PREF attribute
■ MED attribute
■ NEXT_HOP attribute
■ AS_PATH attribute
Prerequisites Before configuring this task, you have:
■ Enabled IPv6 function
■ Configured IPv6 BGP basic functions
Configuring IPv6 BGP
Preference and Default
LOCAL_PREF and
NEXT_HOP Attributes
Follow these steps to perform this configuration:
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Enter system view  system-view - 
Enter BGP view  bgp as-number Required 
Enter IPv6 address family view  ipv6-family - 
Enable route synchronization 
between IPv6 BGP and IGP 
synchronization Required
Not enabled by default
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Enter system view  system-view - 
Enter BGP view  bgp as-number Required 
Enter IPv6 address family view  ipv6-family - 
Configure IPv6 BGP route 
dampening parameters 
dampening [ half-life-reachable 
half-life-unreachable reuse suppress 
ceiling | route-policy 
route-policy-name ]* 
Optional
Not configured by 
default
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Enter system view  system-view - 
Enter BGP view  bgp as-number Required 
Enter IPv6 address family view  ipv6-family - 
Configure preference values 
for IPv6 BGP external, internal, 
local routes 
preference 
{ external-preference 
internal-preference 
local-preference | 
route-policy 
route-policy-name } 
Optional
The default preference values 
of external, internal and local 
routes are 255, 255, 130 
respectively