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Configuring Internal BGP Features

Last Updated: November 2, 2011

This document describes how to configure internal Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) features. BGP is an interdomain routing protocol that is designed to provide loop-free routing between organizations.

Finding Feature Information

Your software release may not support all the features documented in this module. For the latest feature information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the Feature Information Table at the end of this document.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Information About Internal BGP Features

BGP Routing Domain Confederation

One way to reduce the internal BGP (iBGP) mesh is to divide an autonomous system into multiple subautonomous systems and group them into a single confederation. To the outside world, the confederation looks like a single autonomous system. Each autonomous system is fully meshed within itself, and has a few connections to other autonomous systems in the same confederation. Even though the peers in different autonomous systems have external BGP (eBGP) sessions, they exchange routing information as if they were iBGP peers. Specifically, the next hop, Multi_Exit_Discriminator (MED) attribute, and local preference information is preserved. This feature allows the you to retain a single Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) for all of the autonomous systems.

To configure a BGP confederation, you must specify a confederation identifier. To the outside world, the group of autonomous systems will look like a single autonomous system with the confederation identifier as the autonomous system number.

BGP Route Reflector

BGP requires that all iBGP speakers be fully meshed. However, this requirement does not scale well when there are many iBGP speakers. Instead of configuring a confederation, another way to reduce the iBGP mesh is to configure a route reflector.

The figure below illustrates a simple iBGP configuration with three iBGP speakers (Routers A, B, and C). Without route reflectors, when Router A receives a route from an external neighbor, it must advertise it to both routers B and C. Routers B and C do not readvertise the iBGP learned route to other iBGP speakers because the routers do not pass on routes learned from internal neighbors to other internal neighbors, thus preventing a routing information loop.

Figure 1Three Fully Meshed iBGP Speakers


With route reflectors, all iBGP speakers need not be fully meshed because there is a method to pass learned routes to neighbors. In this model, an iBGP peer is configured to be a route reflector responsible for passing iBGP learned routes to a set of iBGP neighbors. In the figure below, Router B is configured as a route reflector. When the route reflector receives routes advertised from Router A, it advertises them to Router C, and vice versa. This scheme eliminates the need for the iBGP session between Routers A and C.

Figure 2Simple BGP Model with a Route Reflector


The internal peers of the route reflector are divided into two groups: client peers and all the other routers in the autonomous system (nonclient peers). A route reflector reflects routes between these two groups. The route reflector and its client peers form a cluster. The nonclient peers must be fully meshed with each other, but the client peers need not be fully meshed. The clients in the cluster do not communicate with iBGP speakers outside their cluster.

The figure below illustrates a more complex route reflector scheme. Router A is the route reflector in a cluster with routers B, C, and D. Routers E, F, and G are fully meshed, nonclient routers.

Figure 3More Complex BGP Route Reflector Model


When the route reflector receives an advertised route, depending on the neighbor, it takes the following actions:

  • A route from an external BGP speaker is advertised to all clients and nonclient peers.
  • A route from a nonclient peer is advertised to all clients.
  • A route from a client is advertised to all clients and nonclient peers. Hence, the clients need not be fully meshed.

Along with route reflector-aware BGP speakers, it is possible to have BGP speakers that do not understand the concept of route reflectors. They can be members of either client or nonclient groups allowing an easy and gradual migration from the old BGP model to the route reflector model. Initially, you could create a single cluster with a route reflector and a few clients. All the other iBGP speakers could be nonclient peers to the route reflector and then more clusters could be created gradually.

An autonomous system can have multiple route reflectors. A route reflector treats other route reflectors just like other iBGP speakers. A route reflector can be configured to have other route reflectors in a client group or nonclient group. In a simple configuration, the backbone could be divided into many clusters. Each route reflector would be configured with other route reflectors as nonclient peers (thus, all the route reflectors will be fully meshed). The clients are configured to maintain iBGP sessions with only the route reflector in their cluster.

Usually a cluster of clients will have a single route reflector. In that case, the cluster is identified by the router ID of the route reflector. To increase redundancy and avoid a single point of failure, a cluster might have more than one route reflector. In this case, all route reflectors in the cluster must be configured with the 4-byte cluster ID so that a route reflector can recognize updates from route reflectors in the same cluster. All the route reflectors serving a cluster should be fully meshed and all of them should have identical sets of client and nonclient peers.

Route Reflector Mechanisms to Avoid Routing Loops

As the iBGP learned routes are reflected, routing information may loop. The route reflector model has the following mechanisms to avoid routing loops:

  • Originator ID is an optional, nontransitive BGP attribute. It is a 4-byte attribute created by a route reflector. The attribute carries the router ID of the originator of the route in the local autonomous system. Therefore, if a misconfiguration causes routing information to come back to the originator, the information is ignored.
  • Cluster-list is an optional, nontransitive BGP attribute. It is a sequence of cluster IDs that the route has passed. When a route reflector reflects a route from its clients to nonclient peers, and vice versa, it appends the local cluster ID to the cluster list. If the cluster list is empty, a new cluster list is created. Using this attribute, a route reflector can identify if routing information is looped back to the same cluster due to misconfiguration. If the local cluster ID is found in the cluster list, the advertisement is ignored.
  • The use of set clauses in outbound route maps can modify attributes and possibly create routing loops. To avoid this behavior, most set clauses of outbound route maps are ignored for routes reflected to iBGP peers. The only set clause of an outbound route map that is acted upon is the set ip next-hop clause.

BGP Outbound Route Map on Route Reflector to Set IP Next Hop for iBGP Peer

The BGP Outbound Route Map on Route Reflector to Set IP Next Hop feature allows a route reflector to modify the next hop attribute for a reflected route.

The use of set clauses in outbound route maps can modify attributes and possibly create routing loops. To avoid this behavior, most set clauses of outbound route maps are ignored for routes reflected to iBGP peers. The only set clause of an outbound route map on a route reflector (RR) that is acted upon is the set ip next-hop clause. The set ip next-hop clause is applied to reflected routes.

Configuring an RR with an outbound route map allows a network administrator to modify the next hop attribute for a reflected route. By configuring a route map with the set ip next-hop clause, the administrator puts the RR into the forwarding path, and can configure iBGP multipath load sharing to achieve load balancing. That is, the RR can distribute outgoing packets among multiple egress points. See the "Configuring iBGP Multipath Load Sharing" module.


Caution

Incorrectly setting BGP attributes for reflected routes can cause inconsistent routing, routing loops, or a loss of connectivity. Setting BGP attributes for reflected routes should only be attempted by someone who has a good understanding of the design implications.

BGP VPLS Autodiscovery Support on Route Reflector

In Cisco IOS XE Release 2.5, BGP VPLS Autodiscovery Support on Route Reflector was introduced. On the ASR1000, BGP Route Reflector was enhanced to be able to reflect BGP VPLS prefixes without having VPLS explicitly configured on the route reflector. The route reflector reflects the VPLS prefixes to other provider edge (PE) routers so that the PEs do not need to have a full mesh of BGP sessions. The network administrator configures only the BGP VPLS address family on the route reflector.

For an example of a route reflector configuration that can reflect VPLS prefixes, see the Example BGP VPLS Autodiscovery Support on Route Reflector.

BGP Route Dampening

Route dampening is a BGP feature designed to minimize the propagation of flapping routes across an internetwork. A route is considered to be flapping when its availability alternates repeatedly.

For example, consider a network with three BGP autonomous systems: autonomous system 1, autonomous system 2, and autonomous system 3. Suppose the route to network A in autonomous system 1 flaps (it becomes unavailable). Under circumstances without route dampening, the eBGP neighbor of autonomous system 1 to autonomous system 2 sends a withdraw message to autonomous system 2. The border router in autonomous system 2, in turn, propagates the withdraw message to autonomous system 3. When the route to network A reappears, autonomous system 1 sends an advertisement message to autonomous system 2, which sends it to autonomous system 3. If the route to network A repeatedly becomes unavailable, then available, many withdrawal and advertisement messages are sent. This is a problem in an internetwork connected to the Internet because a route flap in the Internet backbone usually involves many routes.


Note
No penalty is applied to a BGP peer reset when route dampening is enabled. Although the reset withdraws the route, no penalty is applied in this instance, even if route flap dampening is enabled.

Route Dampening Minimizes Route Flapping

The route dampening feature minimizes the flapping problem as follows. Suppose again that the route to network A flaps. The router in autonomous system 2 (where route dampening is enabled) assigns network A a penalty of 1000 and moves it to history state. The router in autonomous system 2 continues to advertise the status of the route to neighbors. The penalties are cumulative. When the route flaps so often that the penalty exceeds a configurable suppress limit, the router stops advertising the route to network A, regardless of how many times it flaps. Thus, the route is dampened.

The penalty placed on network A is decayed until the reuse limit is reached, upon which the route is once again advertised. At half of the reuse limit, the dampening information for the route to network A is removed.

BGP Route Dampening Terms

The following terms are used when describing route dampening:

  • Flap--A route whose availability alternates repeatedly.
  • History state--After a route flaps once, it is assigned a penalty and put into history state, meaning the router does not have the best path, based on historical information.
  • Penalty--Each time a route flaps, the router configured for route dampening in another autonomous system assigns the route a penalty of 1000. Penalties are cumulative. The penalty for the route is stored in the BGP routing table until the penalty exceeds the suppress limit. At that point, the route state changes from history to damp.
  • Damp state--In this state, the route has flapped so often that the router will not advertise this route to BGP neighbors.
  • Suppress limit--A route is suppressed when its penalty exceeds this limit. The default value is 2000.
  • Half-life--Once the route has been assigned a penalty, the penalty is decreased by half after the half-life period (which is 15 minutes by default). The process of reducing the penalty happens every 5 seconds.
  • Reuse limit--As the penalty for a flapping route decreases and falls below this reuse limit, the route is unsuppressed. That is, the route is added back to the BGP table and once again used for forwarding. The default reuse limit is 750. The process of unsuppressing routes occurs at 10-second increments. Every 10 seconds, the router finds out which routes are now unsuppressed and advertises them to the world.
  • Maximum suppress limit--This value is the maximum amount of time a route can be suppressed. The default value is four times the half-life.

The routes external to an autonomous system learned via iBGP are not dampened. This policy prevent the iBGP peers from having a higher penalty for routes external to the autonomous system.

How To Configure Internal BGP Features

For information on configuring features that apply to multiple IP routing protocols (such as redistributing routing information), see the "Configuring IP Routing Protocol-Independent Features" module.

Configuring a Routing Domain Confederation

To configure a BGP confederation, you must specify a confederation identifier. To the outside world, the group of autonomous systems will look like a single autonomous system with the confederation identifier as the autonomous system number. To configure a BGP confederation identifier, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp confederation identifier  as-number

Configures a BGP confederation.

In order to treat the neighbors from other autonomous systems within the confederation as special eBGP peers, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp confederation peers  as-number [as-number]

Specifies the autonomous systems that belong to the confederation.

For an alternative way to reduce the iBGP mesh, see "Configuring a Route Reflector."

Configuring a Route Reflector

To configure a route reflector and its clients, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} route-reflector-client

Configures the local router as a BGP route reflector and the specified neighbor as a client.

If the cluster has more than one route reflector, configure the cluster ID by using the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp cluster-id  cluster-id

Configures the cluster ID.

Use the show ip bgp command to display the originator ID and the cluster-list attributes.

By default, the clients of a route reflector are not required to be fully meshed and the routes from a client are reflected to other clients. However, if the clients are fully meshed, the route reflector need not reflect routes to clients.

To disable client-to-client route reflection, use the no bgp client-to-client reflection command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# no bgp client-to-client reflection

Disables client-to-client route reflection.

Configuring a Route Reflector Using a Route Map to Set Next Hop for iBGP Peer

Perform this task on an RR to set a next hop for an iBGP peer. One reason to perform this task is when you want to make the RR the next hop for routes, so that you can configure iBGP load sharing. Create a route map that sets the next hop to be the RR's address, which will be advertised to the RR clients. The route map is applied only to outbound routes from the router to which the route map is applied.


Caution

Incorrectly setting BGP attributes for reflected routes can cause inconsistent routing, routing loops, or a loss of connectivity. Setting BGP attributes for reflected routes should only be attempted by someone who has a good understanding of the design implications.


Note
Do not use the neighbor next-hop-self command to modify the next hop attribute for an RR. Using the neighbor next-hop-self command on the RR will modify next hop attributes only for non-reflected routes and not the intended routes that are being reflected from the RR clients. To modify the next hop attribute when reflecting a route, use an outbound route map.

This task configures the RR (Router 2) in the scenario illustrated in the figure below. In this case, Router 1 is the iBGP peer whose routes' next hop is being set. Without a route map, outbound routes from Router 1 would go to next hop Router 3. Instead, setting the next hop to the RR's address will cause routes from Router 1 to go to the RR, and thus allow the RR to perform load balancing among Routers 3, 4, and 5.

Figure 4Route Reflector Using a Route Map to Set Next Hop for an iBGP Peer


SUMMARY STEPS

1.    enable

2.    configure terminal

3.    route-map map-tag

4.    set ip next-hop ip-address

5.    exit

6.    router bgp as-number

7.    address-family ipv4

8.    maximum-paths ibgp number

9.    neighbor ip-address remote-as as-number

10.    neighbor ip-address activate

11.    neighbor ip-address route-reflector-client

12.    neighbor ip-address route-map map-name out

13.    Repeat Steps 12 through 14 for the other RR clients.

14.    end

15.    show ip bgp neighbors


DETAILED STEPS
 Command or ActionPurpose
Step 1
enable


Example:

Router> enable

 

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.
 
Step 2
configure terminal


Example:

Router# configure terminal

 

Enters global configuration mode.

 
Step 3
route-map map-tag


Example:

Router(config)# route-map rr-out

 

Enters route map configuration mode to configure a route map.

  • The route map is created to set the next hop for the route reflector client.
 
Step 4
set ip next-hop ip-address


Example:

Router(config-route-map)# set ip next-hop 10.2.0.1

 

Specifies that for routes that are advertised where this route map is applied, the next-hop attribute is set to this IPv4 address.

  • For this task, we want to set the next hop to be the address of the RR.
 
Step 5
exit


Example:

Router(config-route-map)# exit

 

Exits route-map configuration mode and enters global configuration mode.

 
Step 6
router bgp as-number


Example:

Router(config)# router bgp 100

 

Enters router configuration mode and creates a BGP routing process.

 
Step 7
address-family ipv4


Example:

Router(config-router-af)# address-family ipv4

 

Enters address family configuration mode to configure BGP peers to accept address family specific configurations.

 
Step 8
maximum-paths ibgp number


Example:

Router(config-router)# maximum-paths ibgp 5

 

Controls the maximum number of parallel iBGP routes that can be installed in the routing table.

 
Step 9
neighbor ip-address remote-as as-number


Example:

Router(config-router-af)# neighbor 10.1.0.1 remote-as 100

 

Adds an entry to the BGP neighbor table.

 
Step 10
neighbor ip-address activate


Example:

Router(config-router-af)# neighbor 10.1.0.1 activate

 

Enables the exchange of information with the peer.

 
Step 11
neighbor ip-address route-reflector-client


Example:

Router(config-router-af)# neighbor 10.1.0.1 route-reflector-client

 

Configures the local router as a BGP route reflector, and configures the specified neighbor as a route-reflector client.

 
Step 12
neighbor ip-address route-map map-name out


Example:

Router(config-router-af)# neighbor 10.1.0.1 route-map rr-out out

 

Applies the route map to outgoing routes from this neighbor.

  • Reference the route map you created in Step 3.
 
Step 13
Repeat Steps 12 through 14 for the other RR clients.  

You will not be applying a route map to the other RR clients.

 
Step 14
end


Example:

Router(config-router-af)# end

 

Exits address family configuration mode and enters privileged EXEC mode.

 
Step 15
show ip bgp neighbors


Example:

Router# show ip bgp neighbors

 

(Optional) Displays information about the BGP neighbors, including their status as RR clients, and information about the route map configured.

 

Adjusting BGP Timers

BGP uses certain timers to control periodic activities such as the sending of keepalive messages and the interval after not receiving a keepalive message after which the Cisco IOS XE software declares a peer dead. By default, the keepalive timer is 60 seconds, and the hold-time timer is 180 seconds.You can adjust these timers. When a connection is started, BGP will negotiate the hold time with the neighbor. The smaller of the two hold times will be chosen. The keepalive timer is then set based on the negotiated hold time and the configured keepalive time.

To adjust BGP timers for all neighbors, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose 

Router(config-router)# timers bgp  keepalive holdtime

Adjusts BGP timers for all neighbors.

To adjust BGP keepalive and hold-time timers for a specific neighbor, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose 

Router(config-router)# neighbor [ip-address | peer-group-name] timers  keepalive holdtime

Sets the keepalive and hold-time timers (in seconds) for the specified peer or peer group.


Note
The timers configured for a specific neighbor or peer group override the timers configured for all BGP neighbors using the timers bgp router configuration command.

To clear the timers for a BGP neighbor or peer group, use the no form of the neighbor timers command.

Configuring the Router to Consider a Missing MED as Worst Path

To configure the router to consider a path with a missing MED attribute as the worst path, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp bestpath med missing-as-worst

Configures the router to consider a missing MED as having a value of infinity, making the path without a MED value the least desirable path.

Configuring the Router to Consider the MED to Choose a Path from Subautonomous System Paths

To configure the router to consider the MED value in choosing a path, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp bestpath med confed

Configures the router to consider the MED in choosing a path from among those advertised by different subautonomous systems within a confederation.

The comparison between MEDs is made only if there are no external autonomous systems in the path (an external autonomous system is an autonomous system that is not within the confederation). If there is an external autonomous system in the path, then the external MED is passed transparently through the confederation, and the comparison is not made.

The following example compares route A with these paths: 

path= 65000 65004, med=2
path= 65001 65004, med=3
path= 65002 65004, med=4
path= 65003 1, med=1

In this case, path 1 would be chosen if the bgp bestpath med confed router configurationcommand is enabled. The fourth path has a lower MED, but it is not involved in the MED comparison because there is an external autonomous system is in this path.

Configuring the Router to Use the MED to Choose a Path in a Confederation

To configure the router to use the MED to choose the best path from among paths advertised by a single subautonomous system within a confederation, use the following command in router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp deterministic med

Configures the router to compare the MED variable when choosing among routes advertised by different peers in the same autonomous system.

Note
If the bgp always-compare-med router configuration command is enabled, all paths are fully comparable, including those from other autonomous systems in the confederation, even if the bgp deterministic med command is also enabled.

Enabling BGP Route Dampening

To enable BGP route dampening, use the following command in address family or router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp dampening

Enables BGP route dampening.

To change the default values of various dampening factors, use the following command in address family or router configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

 
Router(config-router)# bgp dampening  half-life reuse suppress max-suppress [route-map  map-name]

Changes the default values of route dampening factors.

Monitoring and Maintaining BGP Route Dampening

You can monitor the flaps of all the paths that are flapping. The statistics will be deleted once the route is not suppressed and is stable for at least one half-life. To display flap statistics, use the following commands as needed:

Command

Purpose

 
Router# show ip bgp flap-statistics

Displays BGP flap statistics for all paths.

 
Router# show ip bgp flap-statistics regexp  regexp

Displays BGP flap statistics for all paths that match the regular expression.

 
Router# show ip bgp flap-statistics filter-list access- list

Displays BGP flap statistics for all paths that pass the filter.

 
Router# show ip bgp flap-statistics  ip-address mask

Displays BGP flap statistics for a single entry.

 
Router# show ip bgp flap-statistics  ip-address mask longer-prefix

Displays BGP flap statistics for more specific entries.

To clear BGP flap statistics (thus making it less likely that the route will be dampened), use the following commands as needed:

Command

Purpose

 
Router# clear ip bgp flap-statistics

Clears BGP flap statistics for all routes.

 
Router# clear ip bgp flap-statistics regexp regexp

Clears BGP flap statistics for all paths that match the regular expression.

 
Router# clear ip bgp flap-statistics filter-list  list

Clears BGP flap statistics for all paths that pass the filter.

 
Router# clear ip bgp flap-statistics  ip-address mask

Clears BGP flap statistics for a single entry.

 
Router# clear ip bgp  ip-address  flap-statistics

Clears BGP flap statistics for all paths from a neighbor.

Note
The flap statistics for a route are also cleared when a BGP peer is reset. Although the reset withdraws the route, there is no penalty applied in this instance, even if route flap dampening is enabled.

Once a route is dampened, you can display BGP route dampening information, including the time remaining before the dampened routes will be unsuppressed. To display the information, use the following command:

Command

Purpose

 
Router# show ip bgp dampened-paths

Displays the dampened routes, including the time remaining before they will be unsuppressed.

You can clear BGP route dampening information and unsuppress any suppressed routes by using the following command:

Command

Purpose

 
Router# clear ip bgp dampening [ip-address network-mask]

Clears route dampening information and unsuppresses the suppressed routes.

Internal BGP Feature Configuration Examples

Example BGP Confederation Configurations with Route Maps

This section contains an example of the use of a BGP confederation configuration that includes BGP communities and route maps. For more examples of how to configure a BGP confederation, see the section Examples BGP Confederation in this chapter.

This example shows how BGP community attributes are used with a BGP confederation configuration to filter routes.

In this example, the route map named set-community is applied to the outbound updates to neighbor 172.16.232.50 and the local-as community attribute is used to filter the routes. The routes that pass access list 1 have the special community attribute value local-as. The remaining routes are advertised normally. This special community value automatically prevents the advertisement of those routes by the BGP speakers outside autonomous system 200.

router bgp 65000
 network 10.0.1.0 route-map set-community
 bgp confederation identifier 200
 bgp confederation peers 65001
 neighbor 172.16.232.50 remote-as 100
 neighbor 172.16.233.2 remote-as 65001
!
route-map set-community permit 10
 match ip address 1
 set community local-as
!

Examples BGP Confederation

The following is a sample configuration that shows several peers in a confederation. The confederation consists of three internal autonomous systems with autonomous system numbers 6001, 6002, and 6003. To the BGP speakers outside the confederation, the confederation looks like a normal autonomous system with autonomous system number 500 (specified via the bgp confederation identifier router configuration command).

In a BGP speaker in autonomous system 6001, the bgp confederation peers router configuration command marks the peers from autonomous systems 6002 and 6003 as special eBGP peers. Hence peers 172.16.232.55 and 172.16.232.56 will get the local preference, next hop, and MED unmodified in the updates. The router at 10.16.69.1 is a normal eBGP speaker and the updates received by it from this peer will be just like a normal eBGP update from a peer in autonomous system 6001.

router bgp 6001
 bgp confederation identifier 500
 bgp confederation peers 6002 6003
 neighbor 172.16.232.55 remote-as 6002
 neighbor 172.16.232.56 remote-as 6003
 neighbor 10.16.69.1 remote-as 777

In a BGP speaker in autonomous system 6002, the peers from autonomous systems 6001 and 6003 are configured as special eBGP peers. 10.70.70.1 is a normal iBGP peer and 10.99.99.2 is a normal eBGP peer from autonomous system 700.

router bgp 6002
 bgp confederation identifier 500
 bgp confederation peers 6001 6003
 neighbor 10.70.70.1 remote-as 6002
 neighbor 172.16.232.57 remote-as 6001
 neighbor 172.16.232.56 remote-as 6003
 neighbor 10.99.99.2 remote-as 700

In a BGP speaker in autonomous system 6003, the peers from autonomous systems 6001 and 6002 are configured as special eBGP peers. 10.200.200.200 is a normal eBGP peer from autonomous system 701.

router bgp 6003
 bgp confederation identifier 500
 bgp confederation peers 6001 6002
 neighbor 172.16.232.57 remote-as 6001
 neighbor 172.16.232.55 remote-as 6002
 neighbor 10.200.200.200 remote-as 701

The following is a part of the configuration from the BGP speaker 10.200.200.205 from autonomous system 701 in the same example. Neighbor 172.16.232.56 is configured as a normal eBGP speaker from autonomous system 500. The internal division of the autonomous system into multiple autonomous systems is not known to the peers external to the confederation.

router bgp 701
 neighbor 172.16.232.56 remote-as 500
 neighbor 10.200.200.205 remote-as 701

Example Route Reflector Using a Route Map to Set Next Hop for iBGP Peer

The following example is based on the figure above. Router 2 is the route reflector for the clients: Routers 1, 3, 4, and 5. Router 1 is connected to Router 3, but you don't want Router 1 to forward traffic destined to AS 200 to use Router 3 as the next hop (and therefore use the direct link with Router 3); you want to direct the traffic to the RR, which can load share among Routers 3, 4, and 5.

This example configures the RR, Router 2. A route map named rr-out is applied to Router 1; the route map sets the next hop to be the RR at 10.2.0.1. When Router 1 sees that the next hop is the RR address, Router 1 forwards the routes to the RR. When the RR receives packets, it will automatically load share among the iBGP paths. A maximum of five iBGP paths are allowed.

Router 2

route-map rr-out
 set ip next-hop 10.2.0.1 
!
interface gigabitethernet 0/0
 ip address 10.2.0.1 255.255.0.0
router bgp 100
 address-family ipv4 unicast
 maximum-paths ibgp 5
 neighbor 10.1.0.1 remote-as 100
 neighbor 10.1.0.1 activate
 neighbor 10.1.0.1 route-reflector-client
 neighbor 10.1.0.1 route-map rr-out out
!
 neighbor 10.3.0.1 remote-as 100
 neighbor 10.3.0.1 activate
 neighbor 10.3.0.1 route-reflector-client
!
 neighbor 10.4.0.1 remote-as 100
 neighbor 10.4.0.1 activate
 neighbor 10.4.0.1 route-reflector-client
!
 neighbor 10.5.0.1 remote-as 100
 neighbor 10.5.0.1 activate
 neighbor 10.5.0.1 route-reflector-client
end

Example BGP VPLS Autodiscovery Support on Route Reflector

In the following example, a host named PE-RR (indicating Provider Edge Route Reflector) is configured as a route reflector capable of reflecting VPLS prefixes. The VPLS address family is configured by address-family l2vpn vpls below.

hostname PE-RR
!
router bgp 1
 bgp router-id 1.1.1.3
 no bgp default route-target filter
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor iBGP_PEERS peer-group
neighbor iBGP_PEERS remote-as 1
neighbor iBGP_PEERS update-source Loopback1  
neighbor 1.1.1.1 peer-group iBGP_PEERS  
neighbor 1.1.1.2 peer-group iBGP_PEERS  
!
address-family l2vpn vpls
  neighbor iBGP_PEERS send-community extended
  neighbor iBGP_PEERS route-reflector-client
  neighbor 1.1.1.1 peer-group iBGP_PEERS
  neighbor 1.1.1.2 peer-group iBGP_PEERS  
exit-address-family 
!

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to configuring internal BGP features.

Related Documents

Related Topic

Document Title

BGP commands

Cisco IOS IP Routing: BGP Command Reference

BGP overview

"Cisco BGP Overview" module

Basic BGP configuration tasks

"Configuring a Basic BGP Network" module

iBGP multipath load sharing

"iBGP Multipath Load Sharing" module

Connecting to a service provider

"Connecting to a Service Provider Using External BGP" module

Configuring features that apply to multiple IP routing protocols

Cisco IOS IP Routing: Protocol-Independent Configuration Guide

Standards

Standard

Title

No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature.

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MIBs

MIB

MIBs Link

To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFC

Title

RFC 1772

Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet

RFC 1773

Experience with the BGP Protocol

RFC 1774

BGP-4 Protocol Analysis

RFC 1930

Guidelines for Creation, Selection, and Registration of an Autonomous System (AS)

RFC 2519

A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation

RFC 2858

Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

RFC 2918

Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4

RFC 3392

Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

RFC 4271

A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)

RFC 4893

BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space

RFC 5396

Textual Representation of Autonomous system (AS) Numbers

RFC 5398

Autonomous System (AS) Number Reservation for Documentation Use

Technical Assistance

Description

Link

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To receive security and technical information about your products, you can subscribe to various services, such as the Product Alert Tool (accessed from Field Notices), the Cisco Technical Services Newsletter, and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds.

Access to most tools on the Cisco Support website requires a Cisco.com user ID and password.

http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Feature Information for Configuring Internal BGP Features

The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Table 1Feature Information for Configuring Internal BGP Features

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

Configuring internal BGP features

Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1

This document describes how to configure internal BGP features. BGP is an interdomain routing protocol that is designed to provide loop-free routing between organizations.

This feature was introduced on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers.

The following commands were modified by this feature: bgp confederation identifier, bgp confederation peers.

BGP Outbound Route Map on Route Reflector to Set IP Next Hop

Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1

The BGP Outbound Route Map on Route Reflector to Set IP Next Hop feature allows a route reflector to modify the next hop attribute for a reflected route.

BGP VPLS Autodiscovery Support on Route Reflector

Cisco IOS XE Release 2.5

This feature was introduced on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers.

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