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Task Remarks
Controlling route
advertisement and
reception
Configuring MBGP route redistribution Required
Configuring default route redistribution into MBGP Optional
Configuring MBGP route summarization Optional
Advertising a default route to an IPv4 MBGP peer or peer group Optional
Configuring outbound MBGP route filtering Optional
Configuring inbound MBGP route filtering Optional
Configuring MBGP route dampening Optional
Configuring MBGP
route attributes
Configuring MBGP route preferences
Optional
Configuring the default local preference
Configuring the MED attribute
Configuring the NEXT_HOP attribute
Configuring the AS_PATH attributes
Tuning and
optimizing MBGP
networks
Configuring MBGP soft reset Optional
Enabling the MBGP ORF capability Optional
Configuring the maximum number of MBGP routes for load
balancing
Optional
Configuring a large
scale MBGP network
Configuring IPv4 MBGP peer groups Optional
Configuring MBGP community Optional
Configuring an MBGP route reflector Optional
Configuring basic MBGP functions
Before you configure MBGP, be sure that neighboring nodes can access each other at the network layer.
To configure basic MBGP functions:
Ste
Command
Remarks
1. Enter system view.
system-view N/A
2. Enter BGP view.
bgp as-number N/A
3. Specify a peer or peer group
and its AS number.
peer { group-name | ip-address }
as-number as-number
Not specified by default.
4. Enter IPv4 MBGP address
family view.
ipv4-family multicast N/A
5. Enable a peer or peer group
created in IPv4 unicast view.
peer { group-name | ip-address }
enable
Not enabled by default.
6. Specify a preferred value for
routes from an IPv4 MBGP
peer or peer group.
peer { group-name | ip-address }
preferred-value value
Optional.
The default preferred value is 0.