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Ste
 Command
Remarks 
2.  Enter BGP view or BGP-VPN 
instance view. 
•  Enter BGP view: 
bgp as-number 
•  Enter BGP-VPN instance view: 
a.  bgp as-number 
b.  ip vpn-instance 
vpn-instance-name
 
N/A 
3.  Create an EBGP peer group. 
group group-name external 
By default, no EBGP peer group is 
created.  
4.  Add a peer into the EBGP 
peer group. 
peer ipv6-address group 
group-name as-number as-number
By default, no peer exists in the 
peer group.  
5.  (Optional.) Configure a 
description for the peer group. 
peer group-name description 
description-text 
By default, no description is 
configured for the peer group.  
6.  Create and enter BGP IPv6 
unicast address family view or 
BGP-VPN IPv6 unicast 
address family view. 
address-family ipv6 [ unicast ] 
By default, the BGP IPv6 unicast 
address family view and BGP-VPN 
IPv6 unicast address family view 
are not created. 
7.  Enable the router to exchange 
IPv6 unicast routing 
information with peers in the 
specified peer group. 
peer group-name enable 
By default, the router cannot 
exchange IPv6 unicast routing 
information with the peers. 
 
Specifying the source interface for TCP connections 
By default, BGP uses the output interface of the optimal route to a peer or peer group as the source 
interface for establishing TCP connections to the peer or peer group, and it uses the IP address/IPv6 
address of the output interface as the source IP address/IPv6 address of TCP connections. You can 
change the source interface in the following scenarios: 
•  If the peer’s IP address/IPv4 address belongs to an interface indirectly connected to the local router, 
you must specify that interface as the source interface for TCP connections on the peer. For example, 
interface A on the local end is directly connected to interface B on the peer. If you use the peer 
x.x.x.x as-number as-number command in which x.x.x.x is not the IP address of interface B on the 
local end, you must use the peer connect-interface command on the peer to specify the interface 
whose IP address is x.x.x.x as the source interface for establishing a TCP connection. 
•  On a BGP router that has multiple links to a peer, if the source interface fails, BGP has to reestablish 
TCP connections. To avoid this problem, use a loopback interface as the source interface. 
•  To establish multiple BGP sessions between two routers, specify the source interface for establishing 
TCP connections to each peer on the local router. Otherwise, the local BGP router might fail to 
establish a TCP connection to a peer when using the outbound interface of the best route to the peer 
as the source interface. 
To specify the source interface for TCP connections (IPv4): 
 
Step Command Remarks 
1.  Enter system view. 
system-view  N/A