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Tasks at a glance Remarks
(Optional.) Controlling route distribution and reception:
• Configuring BGP route summarization
• Advertising optimal routes in the IP routing table
• Advertising a default route to a peer or peer group
• Limiting routes received from a peer or peer group
• Configuring BGP route filtering policies
• Configuring BGP update sending delay
• Configuring BGP route dampening
N/A
(Optional.) Controlling BGP path selection:
• Specifying a preferred value for routes received
• Configuring preferences for BGP routes
• Configuring the default local preference
• Configuring the MED attribute
• Configuring the NEXT_HOP attribute
• Configuring the AS_PATH attribute
N/A
(Optional.) Tuning and optimizing BGP networks:
• Configuring the keepalive interval and hold time
• Configuring the interval for sending updates for the same route
• Enabling BGP to establish an EBGP session over multiple hops
• Enabling immediate re-establishment of direct EBGP connections upon link
failure
• Enabling 4-byte AS number suppression
• Enabling MD5 authentication for BGP peers
• Configuring BGP load balancing
• Configuring IPsec for IPv6 BGP
• Configuring GTSM for BGP
• Configuring BGP soft-reset
• Protecting an EBGP peer when memory usage reaches level 2 threshold
N/A
(Optional.) Configuring a large-scale BGP network:
• Configuring BGP community
• Configuring BGP route reflection
• Ignoring the ORIGINATOR_ID attribute
• Configuring a BGP confederation
N/A
(Optional.) Configuring BGP GR N/A
(Optional.) Enabling SNMP notifications for BGP N/A
(Optional.) Enabling logging of session state changes N/A
(Optional.) Enabling logging for BGP route flapping N/A
(Optional.) Configuring BFD for BGP N/A
(Optional.) Configuring BGP FRR N/A
(Optional.) Configuring 6PE N/A
Configuring basic BGP
This section describes the basic settings required for a BGP network to run.