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Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4) version 4 (BGPv4) is supported on platforms: c e s
Platforms support BGP according to the following table:
This chapter is intended to provide a general description of Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4) as 
it is supported in the Dell Force10 Operating System (FTOS).
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Protocol Overview
• Autonomous Systems (AS)
• Sessions and Peers
• Route Reflectors
• Confederations
• BGP Attributes 
• Best Path Selection Criteria
• Weight
• Local Preference
• Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)
• AS Path 
• Next Hop 
• Multiprotocol BGP
FTOS version Platform support 
8.1.1.0 E-Series ExaScale 
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7.8.1.0 S-Series
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7.7.1.0. C-Series
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pre-7.7.1.0 E-Series TeraScale
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