To enter various address family configuration modes while configuring Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), use the address-family command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable support for an address family, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

An address family must be explicitly configured in the router configuration mode for the address family to be active in BGP. Similarly, an address family must be configured under the neighbor for the BGP session to be established for that address family. An address family must be configured in router configuration mode before it can be configured under a neighbor.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Neighbor configuration

Neighbor group configuration

Flowspec configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the address-family command to enter various address family configuration modes while configuring BGP routing sessions. When you enter the address-family command from router configuration mode, you enable the address family and enter global address family configuration mode.

The IPv4 unicast address family must be configured in router configuration mode before configuring the IPv4 labeled-unicast address family for a neighbor in neighbor configuration mode. The IPv6 unicast address family must be configured in router configuration mode before configuring the IPv6 labeled-unicast address family for a neighbor in neighbor configuration mode.

When you enter the address-family command from neighbor configuration mode, you activate the address family on the neighbor and enter neighbor address family configuration mode. IPv4 neighbor sessions support IPv4 unicast, , and labeled-unicastaddress families. IPv6 neighbor sessions support IPv6 unicast address families.

To set the minimum interval between the sending of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing updates, use the advertisement-interval command in an appropriate configuration mode. To remove the advertisement-interval command from the configuration file and restore the system to its default interval values, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Default minimum interval:

For internal BGP (iBGP) peers is 0 seconds

For external BGP (eBGP) peers is 30 seconds

For customer edge (CE) peers is 0 seconds

Command Modes

Neighbor configuration

Neighbor group configuration

Session group configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

If this command configures a neighbor group or session group, all neighbors using the group inherit the configuration. Values of commands configured specifically for a neighbor override inherited values.

Related Commands

To create an address family group for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) neighbors and enter address family group configuration mode, use the af-group command in router configuration mode. To remove an address family group, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

No BGP address family group is configured.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the af-group command to group address family-specific neighbor commands within an IPv4 or IPv6 address family. Neighbors that have address family configuration are able to use the address family group. Further, neighbors inherit the configuration parameters of the entire address family group.

You cannot define two address family groups with the same name in different address families.

Related Commands

To create an aggregate entry in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing table, use the aggregate-address command in an appropriate configuration mode. To remove the aggregate-address command from the configuration file and restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

When you do not specify this command, no aggregate entry is created in the BGP routing table.

Command Modes

IPv4 address family configuration

IPv6 address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

You can implement aggregate routing in BGP either by redistributing an aggregate route into BGP using the network command or the aggregate-address command.

Use the aggregate-address command without optional arguments to create an aggregate entry in the BGP routing table if any more-specific BGP routes are available that fall in the specified range. The aggregate route is advertised as coming from your autonomous system and has the atomic aggregate attribute set to show that information might be missing. (By default, the atomic aggregate attribute is set unless you specify the as-set keyword.)

Use of the as-set keyword creates an aggregate entry using the same rules that the command follows without this keyword. However, the advertised path for this route is an AS_SET, a set of all autonomous systems contained in all paths that are being summarized.

Do not use this form of the aggregate-address command when aggregating many paths because this route must be continually withdrawn and updated as autonomous system path reachability information for the summarized routes changes.

Use the as-confed-set keyword to create an AS_CONFED_SET in the autonomous system path of the aggregate from any confederation segments in the paths being summarized. This keyword takes effect only if the as-set keyword is also specified.

Use of the summary-only keyword creates an aggregate entry (for example, 10.0.0.0/8) but suppresses advertisements of more-specific routes to all neighbors. If you want to suppress only advertisements to certain neighbors, use the route-policy (BGP) command in neighbor address family configuration mode with caution. If a more-specific route leaks out, all BGP speakers (the local router) prefer that route over the less-specific aggregate you generate (using longest-match routing).

Use the route-policy keyword to specify a routing policy for the aggregate entry. The route-policy keyword is used to select which more-specific information to base the aggregate entry on and which more-specific information to suppress. You can also use the keyword to modify the attributes of the aggregate entry.

Related Commands

To enable sending and receiving of accumulated interior gateway protocol (AiGP) attribute per eBGP neighbor, use the aigpcommand in appropriate configuration mode. To disable this functionality, either use the disable keyword or use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Send or recive of AiGP attribute is disabled for eBGP neighbors

Command Modes

IPv4 address family configuration

IPv6 address family configuration

Neighbor address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Related Commands

To send Accumulated Interior Gateway Protocol (AiGP) value in cost community, use the aigp send-cost-community command in appropriate configuration mode. To disable sending AiGP value in cost community, either use the no form of this command or the disable keyword.

Command Default

Sending AiGP value in cost community is disabled

Command Modes

Neighbor address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Cost community point of insertion can be configured either to be pre-bestpath or after igp cost. The transitive keyword is not required for iBGP sessions. However, the transitive keyword is required for eBGP sessions to convert AiGP metric into cost-community and advertise to the eBGP neighbors.

Related Commands

To allocate Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels for specific IPv4 unicast routes so that the BGP router can send labels with BGP routes to a neighboring router configured for labeledunicast sessions, use the allocate-label command in the appropriate configuration mode. To restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

No default behavior or values

Command Modes

IPv4 address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the allocate-label command with a route policy to trigger BGP to allocate labels for all or a filtered set of global routes (as dictated by the route policy).

Note	The allocate-label all command is functionally equivalent to the allocate-label route-policy route-policy-name command when the route policy is a pass-all policy.

To configure the router to be enabled to advertise a default route to a configured BGP VPN neighbor, use the allow vpn default-originate command in the BGP VRF Address-Family configuration mode. To undo this configuration, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The router cannot advertise a default route to its BGP VPN neighbors.

Command Modes

BGP VRF Address-Family configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

This command only enables the router to advertise itself as the next-hop router for a default route to its BGP VPN neighbors. To actually forward the default route to a BGP VPN neighbor, you need to run the default-originate command under the BGP neighbor Address-Family configuration mode.

To allow an AS path with the provider edge (PE) autonomous system number (ASN) a specified number of times, use the allowas-in command in an appropriate configuration mode. To restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

No default behavior or values

Command Modes

Address family group configuration

Neighbor address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

To configure the router's Autonomous system number (ASN) notation to asdot format, use the as-format command in XR Config mode. To restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

The default value, if the as-format command is not configured, is asplain.

Command Modes

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

To disable AS PATH loop checking for outbound updates, use the as-path-loopcheck out disable command in an appropriate address family configuration mode. To re-enable the default AS PATH loop checking, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

AS PATH loop checking for outbound updates is enabled if there is only one neighbor and disabled if there are multiple neighbors in the update group.

Command Modes

IPv4 address family

IPv6 address family

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Configure the as-path-loopcheck out disable command to disable the default behavior of PE router not announcing BGP routes to the CE router if the routes contain an AS number matching the AS number of the receiving CE router.

To configure attribute-filter group command mode, use the attribute-filter group command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable attribute-filter group command mode, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Attribute-filter group command mode is disabled.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Neighbor configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the attribute-filter group command in neighbor configuration mode to configure a specific attribute filter group for a BGP neighbor.

To specify a bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) multiplier and minimum-interval arguments per neighbor, use the bfd command in neighbor address family independent configuration mode. To return to the system defaults, use the no form of this command.

Previous to this enhancement, BFD could be configured only in global scope in BGP. This change makes available two new command-line arguments under neighbor address family independent configuration:

Command Default

No default per neighbor parameters are set.

Command Modes

Neighbor address family independent configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

If the minimum interval is changed using the bfd minimum-intervalcommand, the new parameter updates all affected BFD sessions under the command mode in which the minimum interval was changed.

If the multiplier is changed using the bfd multiplier command, the new parameter is used to update only the BFD sessions associated with the affected neighbor gets affected.

The assumption is that when BFD fast-detect is enabled under neighbor address family independent configuration, the values for the multiplier and minimum-interval values are always derived from the per-neighbor values if they are configured; otherwise, they are to be taken from the global BGP configuration mode. In the event that this has not been explicitly stated, then these values are taken to be the default values. Also, the bfd arguments can be configured under neighbor-group and session-group and the inheritance adheres to the standard way of BGP configuration inheritance.

Accordingly, there are four cases in which bfd-fast detect is enabled.

This is shown in table below where the BFD value is either multiplier or minimum-interval. Local indicates per NBR value, global is the BGP global value.

To enable loop checking in the autonomous system path of the prefixes advertised by internal Border Gateway Protocol (iBGP) peers, use the bgp as-path-loopcheck command in an appropriate configuration mode. To restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

When you do not specify this command, loop checking is performed only for external peers.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

To enable Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attribute download, use the bgp attribute-download command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable BGP attribute download, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

BGP attribute download is not enabled.

Command Modes

IPv4 unicast address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

When BGP attribute download is enabled using the bgp attribute-download command, BGP reinstalls all routes whose attributes are not currently in the RIB. Likewise, if the user disables BGP attribute download using the no form of the command, BGP reinstalls previously installed routes with a null key, and removes the attributes from the RIB.

Use the bgp attribute-download command to enable the Netflow BGP data export function. When attribute download is enabled, BGP downloads the attribute information for prefixes (community, extended community, and as-path) to the Routing Information Base (RIB) and Forwarding Information Base (FIB). This enables FIB to associate the prefixes with attributes and send the Netflow statistics along with the associated attributes.

To disable an automatic soft reset of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peers when their configured route policy is modified, use the bgp auto-policy-soft-reset disable command in an appropriate configuration mode. To re-enable automatic soft reset of BGP peers, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

Automatic soft reset of peers is enabled.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Note

If the inbound policy changes, it is not always possible to perform a soft reset. This is the case if the neighbor does not support route refresh and soft-reconfiguration inbound is not configured for the neighbor. In such instances, a message is logged in the system log indicating that a manual hard reset is needed.

To ignore the autonomous system path length when calculating preferred paths, use the bgp bestpath as-path ignore command in an appropriate configuration mode. To return the software to the default state in which it considers the autonomous system path length when calculating preferred paths, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The autonomous system path length is used (not ignored) when a best path is selected.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the bgp bestpath as-path ignore command to ignore the length of autonomous system paths when the software selects a preferred path. When the best path is selected, if this command is specified, all steps are performed as usual except comparison of the autonomous path length between candidate paths.

Related Commands

To compare identical routes received from external BGP (eBGP) peers during the best-path selection process and select the route with the lowest router ID, use the bgp bestpath compare-routerid command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable comparing identical routes received from eBGP peers during best-path selection, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The software does not select a new best path if it is the same as the current best path (according to the BGP selection algorithm) except for the router ID.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the bgp bestpath compare-routerid command to affect how the software selects the best path, in the case where there are two paths of equal cost according to the BGP selection algorithm. This command is used to force the software to select the path with the lower router ID as the best path. If this command is not used, the software continues to use whichever path is currently the best path, regardless of which has the lower router ID.

Related Commands

To configure a router that is running the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to not evaluate the cost community attribute during the best-path selection process, use the bgp bestpath cost-community ignore command in an appropriate configuration mode. To restore the system to its default condition, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The behavior of this command is enabled by default until the cost community attribute is manually configured.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the bgp bestpath cost-community ignore command to disable the evaluation of the cost community attribute to help isolate problems and troubleshoot issues that relate to BGP path selection. This command can also be used to delay the activation of cost community attribute evaluation so that cost community filtering can be deployed in a large network at the same time.

Related Commands

To allow the comparison of the Multi Exit Discriminator (MED) for paths from neighbors in different autonomous systems, use the bgp bestpath med always command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable considering the MED attribute in comparing paths, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The software does not compare MEDs for paths from neighbors in different autonomous systems.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

The MED is one of the parameters that is considered by the software when selecting the best path among many alternative paths. The software chooses the path with the lowest MED.

By default, during the best-path selection process, the software makes a MED comparison only among paths from the same autonomous system. This command changes the default behavior of the software by allowing comparison of MEDs among paths regardless of the autonomous system from which the paths are received.

When the bgp bestpath med always command is not enabled and distributed BGP is configured, speakers calculate partial best paths only (executes the best-path steps up to the MED comparison) and send them to BGP Routing Information Base (bRIB). bRIB calculates the final best path (executes all the steps in the best-path calculation). When the bgp bestpath med always command is enabled and distributed BGP is configured, speakers can compare the MED across all ASs, allowing the speaker to calculate a single best path to send it to bRIB. bRIB is the ultimate process that calculates the final best path, but when the bgp bestpath med always command is enabled, the speakers send a single best path instead of potentially sending multiple, partial best paths

Related Commands

To enable Multi Exit Discriminator (MED) comparison among paths learned from confederation peers, use the bgp bestpath med confed command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable the software from considering the MED attribute in comparing paths, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The software does not compare the MED of paths containing only confederation segments, or paths containing confederation segments followed by an AS_SET, with the MED of any other paths.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

By default, the MED of the following paths is not compared with the MED of any other path:

• Paths with an empty autonomous system path
• Paths beginning with an AS_SET
• Paths containing only confederation segments
• Paths containing confederation segments followed by an AS_SET

Use the bgp bestpath med confed command to affect how the following types of paths are treated in the BGP best-path algorithm:

• Paths containing only confederation segments
• Paths containing confederation segments followed by an AS_SET

The MED for paths that start with an AS_SEQUENCE or that start with confederation segments followed by an AS_SEQUENCE only is compared with the MED of other paths that share the same first autonomous system number in the autonomous system sequence (the neighbor autonomous system number). This behavior is not affected by the bgp bestpath med confed command.

As an example, suppose that autonomous systems 65000, 65001, 65002, and 65004 are part of a confederation, but autonomous system 1 is not. Suppose that for a particular route, the following paths exist:

• Path 1: 65000 65004, med = 2, IGP metric = 20
• Path 2: 65001 65004, med = 3, IGP metric = 10
• Path 3: 65002 1, med = 1, IGP metric = 30

If the bgp bestpath med confed command is enabled, the software selects path 1 as the best path because it:

• Has a lower MED than path 2
• Has a lower IGP metric than path 3

The MED is not compared with path 3 because it has an external autonomous system number (that is, an AS_SEQUENCE) in the path. If the bgp bestpath med confed command is not enabled, then MED is not compared between any of these paths. Consequently, the software selects path 2 as the best path because it has the lowest IGP metric.

Related Commands

To have the software consider a missing Multi Exit Discriminator (MED) attribute in a path as having a value of infinity, making the path without a MED value the least desirable path, use the bgp bestpath med missing-as-worst command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable considering the MED attribute in comparing paths, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

The software assigns a value of 0 to the missing MED, causing the path with the missing MED attribute to be considered as the best possible MED.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Related Commands

To permit all paths marked with an 'invalid' origin-as by RPKI to be considered for BGP best path computation, use the bgp bestpath origin-as allow invalid command in the router configuration mode. This configuration can also be made in the address family submode. To return the device to default operation, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

By default, prefixes marked with an 'invalid' origin-as are not considered for BGP best path computation when the router is performing origin-as validation.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Configuring the bgp bestpath origin-as allow invalid command allows paths marked with an 'invalid' origin-as to be considered for best path computation. This can be limited to an address family by configuring it at the address-family submode.

This configuration takes effect only when the bgp bestpath origin-as use validity configuration is enabled.

To enable the BGP Origin AS Validation feature (RPKI) and allow the validity states of BGP paths to be taken into consideration in the bestpath process, use the bgp bestpath origin-as use validity command. This can be configured in router configuration mode and address family submode. To return the device to default operation, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

By default, the best path computation does not take RPKI states into account.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

There are three RPKI states - valid, invalid, and not found. When the bgp bestpath origin-as use validity command is configured, only paths marked with 'valid' or 'not found' are considered as best path candidates. When the bgp bestpath origin-as allow invalid command is configured, paths marked as 'invalid' are also considered but preference is given to routes marked 'valid' over those marked 'invalid'.

To configure a device that is running the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to not evaluate the accumulated interior gateway protocol (AIGP) metric during the best path selection process between two paths when one path does not have the AIGP metric, use the bgp bestpath aigp ignore command in router configuration mode. To return the device to default operation, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

AIGP is enabled by default.

If this command is not configured, then the accumulated interior gateway protocol (AIGP) metric is evaluated (not ignored) during the best path selection.

Command Modes

Router configuration

VRF configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

By default, BGP always prefers a path with the AIGP metric. When there are two paths, one with the AIGP metric and the other without, then executing the bgp bestpath aigp ignore command results in BGP performing best path computation as if neither paths has the AIGP metric.

To configure a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing process to consider the different autonomous system (AS) paths and load balance multiple paths during best path route selection, use the bgp bestpath as-path multipath-relax command. To return the BGP routing process to the default operation, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

None

Command Modes

Router BGP configuration

VRF configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

When BGP multi-pathing is enabled, BGP load-balances user traffic within a single autonomous system (AS). The criteria are that all attributes must match (weight, AS path, etc). However when a device is multi-homed to multiple autonomous systems, BGP cannot load balance traffic between them by default. In order to enable load-balancing of traffic among the multi-homed autonomous systems, the bgp bestpath as-path multipath-relax command needs to be enabled. The criteria required for this is that the AS-path length should be equal.

Before you use this command, ensure that BGP is enabled

To disable reflection of routes between route-reflection clients using a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route reflector, use the bgp client-to-client reflection disable command in address family configuration mode. To re-enable client-to-client reflection, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Client-to-client reflection is enabled.

Command Modes

Address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

By default, the clients of a route reflector that are part of the same cluster 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, route reflection is not required. If the cluster-id is not specified, then this command disables intra-cluster route reflection for all clusters.

Related Commands

To configure the cluster ID if the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) cluster has more than one route reflector, use the bgp cluster-id command in an appropriate configuration mode. To remove the cluster ID, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

A cluster ID is not configured.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Together, a route reflector and its clients form a cluster. A cluster of clients usually has a single route reflector. In such instances, the cluster is identified by the software as the router ID of the route reflector. To increase redundancy and avoid a single point of failure in the network, a cluster might have more than one route reflector. If it does, all route reflectors in the cluster must be configured with the same 4-byte cluster ID so that a route reflector can recognize updates from route reflectors in the same cluster.

Related Commands

To specify a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) confederation identifier, use the bgp confederation identifier command in an appropriate configuration mode. To remove the confederation identifier, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

No confederation identifier is configured.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

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

Use the bgp confederation identifier command to specify the autonomous system number for the confederation. This autonomous system number is used when BGP sessions are established with external peers in autonomous systems that are not part of the confederation.

Related Commands

To configure the autonomous systems that belong to the confederation, use the bgp confederation peers command in an appropriate configuration mode. To remove the autonomous system from the confederation, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

No BGP peers are identified as belonging to the confederation.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

The autonomous systems specified in this command are visible internally to a confederation. Each autonomous system is fully meshed within itself. The bgp confederation identifier command specifies the confederation to which the autonomous systems belong.

To specify multiple autonomous systems, enter BGP confederation peer configuration mode then enter one autonomous-system-number for each command line.

Related Commands

To enable Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route dampening or change various BGP route dampening factors, use the bgp dampening command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable route dampening and reset default values, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Route dampening is disabled.

half-life : 15 minutes

reuse : 750

suppress : 2000

max-suppress-time : four times half-life value

Command Modes

IPv4 address family configuration

IPv6 address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the bgp dampening command without arguments to enable BGP route dampening with the default parameters. The parameters can be changed by setting them on the command line or specifying them with a routing policy.

Related Commands

To change the default local preference value, use the bgp default local-preference command in an appropriate configuration mode. To reset the local preference value to the default of 100, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Enabled with a value of 100.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Generally, the default value of 100 allows you to easily define a particular path as less preferable than paths with no local preference attribute. The preference is sent to all networking devices in the local autonomous system.

To disable the software from enforcing the first autonomous system path (known as the AS path) of a route received from an external Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) peer to be the same as the configured remote autonomous system, use the bgp enforce-first-as disable command in an appropriate configuration mode. To re-enable enforcing the first AS path of a received route from an eBGP peer to be the same as the remote autonomous system, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

By default, the software requires the first autonomous system (in the AS path) of a route received from an eBGP peer to be the same as the remote autonomous system configured.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

By default, the software ignores any update received from an eBGP neighbor that does not have the autonomous system configured for that neighbor at the beginning of the AS path. When configured, the command applies to all eBGP peers of the router.

Related Commands

To disable immediately resetting the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions of any directly adjacent external peers if the link used to reach them goes down, use the bgp fast-external-fallover disable command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable this function and perform an immediate reset of BGP sessions when a link between peers is lost, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

BGP sessions of any directly adjacent external peers are immediately reset if the link used to reach them goes down.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

By default, BGP sessions of any directly adjacent external peers are immediately reset, which allows the network to recover faster when links go down between BGP peers.

To enable graceful restart support, use the bgp graceful-restart command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable this function, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

Graceful restart support is not enabled.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the bgp graceful-restart command to enable graceful restart functionality on the router, and also to advertise graceful restart to neighboring routers.

Note	The bgp graceful-restart command with no options must be used to enable graceful restart before using the bgp graceful-restart purge-time , bgp graceful-restart restart-time , bgp graceful-restart stalepath-time , or bgp graceful-restart graceful-reset commands.

When graceful restart is enabled, the BGP graceful restart capability is negotiated with neighbors in the BGP OPEN message when the session is established. If the neighbor also advertises support for graceful restart, then graceful restart is activated for that neighbor session. If the neighbor does not advertise support for graceful restart, then graceful restart is not activated for that neighbor session even though it is enabled locally.

If you enter the bgp graceful-restart command after some BGP sessions are established, you must restart those sessions before graceful restart takes effect. Use the clear bgp command to restart sessions.

Related Commands

To invoke a graceful restart when configuration changes force a peer reset, use the bgp graceful-restart graceful-reset command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable this function, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

Graceful restart is not invoked when a configuration change forces a peer reset.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

BGP graceful restart must be enabled using the bgp graceful-restart command before enabling graceful reset using the bgp graceful-restart graceful-reset command.

Related Commands

To specify the maximum time before stale routes are purged from the routing information base (RIB) when the local BGP process restarts, use the bgp graceful-restart purge-time command in an appropriate configuration mode. To set the purge timer time to its default value, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

seconds : 600

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

BGP graceful restart must be enabled using the bgp graceful-restart command before setting the purge time using the bgp graceful-restart purge-time command.

Related Commands

To specify a user-predicted local BGP process maximum restart time, which is advertised to neighbors during session establishment, use the bgp graceful-restart restart-time command in an appropriate configuration mode. To set this restart time to its default value, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

seconds : 120

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

BGP graceful restart must be enabled using the bgp graceful-restart command before setting the restart timer using the bgp graceful-restart restart-time command.

Related Commands

To specify the maximum time to wait for an End-of-RIB message after a neighbor restarts, use the bgp graceful-restart stalepath-time command in an appropriate configuration mode. To set the stalepath timer time to its default value, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

seconds : 360

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

BGP graceful restart must be enabled using the bgp graceful-restart command before setting the stalepath time using the bgp graceful-restart stalepath-time command.

If the stalepath time is exceeded before an End-of-RIB message is received from a neighbor, paths learned from the neighbor are purged from the BGP routing table.

Related Commands

To enable delay for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) batch label processing, use the bgp label-delay command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable delay in batch import processing, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

No delay is configured.

Command Modes

Address-family IPv4 Unicast

Address-family IPv6 Unicast

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

To disable logging of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) neighbor resets, use the bgp log neighbor changes disable command in an appropriate configuration mode. To re-enable logging of BGP neighbor resets, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

BGP neighbor changes are logged.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Logging of BGP neighbor status changes (up or down) and resets is used for troubleshooting network connectivity problems and measuring network stability. Unexpected neighbor resets might indicate high error rates or high packet loss in the network, and should be investigated.

Status change message logging does not substantially affect performance, unlike, for example, enabling per-BGP update debugging. If the UNIX syslog facility is enabled, messages are sent by the software to the UNIX host running the syslog daemon so that the messages can be stored and archived on disk. If the UNIX syslog facility is not enabled, the status change messages are kept in the internal buffer of the router, and are not stored to disk.

The neighbor status change messages are not tracked if the bgp log neighbor changes disable command is disabled, except for the last reset reason, which is always available as output of the show bgp neighbors command.

Up and down messages for BGP neighbors are logged by the software by default. Use the bgp log neighbor changes disable command to stop logging BGP neighbor changes.

Related Commands

To control the maximum number of neighbors that can be configured on the router, use the bgp maximum neighbor command in an appropriate configuration mode. To set the neighbor limit to the default value, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Default limit is 4000

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Any attempt to configure the neighbor limit below 1 or above 15000 fails. Similarly, attempting to configure the limit below the number of neighbors currently configured fails. For example, if there are 3250 neighbors configured, you cannot set the limit below 3250.

To allow the redistribution of internal Border Gateway Protocol (iBGP) routes into an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), such as Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) or Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), use the bgp redistribute-internal command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable the redistribution of iBGP routes into IGPs, use the no form of this command.

Syntax Description

This command has no keywords or arguments.

Command Default

By default, iBGP routes are not redistributed into IGPs.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use of the bgp redistribute-internal command requires the clear route * command to be issued to reinstall all BGP routes into the IP routing table.

Note	Redistributing iBGP routes into IGPs may cause routing loops to form within an autonomous system. Use this command with caution.

Related Commands

To configure a fixed router ID for a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)-speaking router, use the bgp router-id command in an appropriate configuration mode. To disable a fixed router ID, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

If no router ID is configured in BGP, BGP attempts to use the global router ID if one is configured and available. Otherwise, BGP uses the highest IP address configured on a loopback interface.

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

If you do not use the bgp router-id command to configure a router ID, an IP address is not configured on any loopback interface, and no global router ID is configured, BGP neighbors remain down.

For more details on router IDs, see the Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 6000 Series Routers

Related Commands

To configure scanning intervals of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)-speaking networking devices, use the bgp scan-time command in an appropriate configuration mode. To restore the scanning interval to its default value, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

The default scanning interval is 60 seconds.

Command Modes

Router configuration

IPv4 address family configuration

IPv6 address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the bgp scan-time command to change how frequently the software processes scanner tasks, such as conditional advertisement, dynamic MED changes, and periodic maintenance tasks.

Related Commands

To set the maximum initial delay for a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)-speaking router to send the first updates, use the bgp update-delay command in an appropriate configuration mode. To restore the initial delay to its default value, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

120 seconds

Command Modes

Router configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

When BGP is started, it waits a specified period of time for its neighbors to establish peering sessions and to complete sending their initial updates. After all neighbors complete their initial updates, or after the update delay timer expires, the best path is calculated for each route, and the software starts sending advertisements out to its peers. This behavior improves convergence time. If the software were to advertise a route as soon as it learned it, it would have to readvertise the route each time it learned a new path that was preferred over all previously learned paths.

Use the bgp update-delay command to tune the maximum time the software waits after the first neighbor is established until it starts calculating best paths and sending out advertisements.

To advertise capability of receiving additional paths to the peer, use the capability additional-paths receive command in neighbor or neighbor-group or session-group configuration mode. To disable the capability of receiving additional paths, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Capability is disabled.

Command Modes

Neighbor configuration

Neighbor group configuration

Session group configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the capability additional-paths receive command to selectively enable or disable additional paths receive capability negotiation for a particular neighbor or neighbor-group or session-group.

If you enter the capability additional-paths receive command after some BGP sessions are established, you must restart those sessions for the new configuration to take effect. Use the clear bgp command to restart sessions.

To advertise capability of sending additional paths to the peer, use the capability additional-paths send command in neighbor or neighbor-group or session-group configuration mode. To disable the capability of sending additional paths, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

Capability is disabled.

Command Modes

Neighbor configuration

Neighbor group configuration

Session group configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the capability additional paths send command to selectively enable or disable additional paths send capability negotiation for a particular neighbor or neighbor-group or session-group.

You must restart the BGP sessions for the new configuration to take effect. Use the clear bgp command to restart sessions.

To advertise prefix list-based Outbound Route Filter (ORF) capability to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer, use the capability orf prefix command in an appropriate configuration mode. To remove the capability orf prefix command from the configuration file and restore the system to its default condition in which the software does not advertise the capability, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

The routing device does not receive or send route prefix filter lists.

Command Modes

IPv4 address family group configuration

IPv6 address family group configuration

IPv4 neighbor address family configuration

IPv4 neighbor group address family configuration

IPv6 neighbor group address family configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

The advertisement of the prefix list ORF capability by a BGP speaker indicates whether the speaker can send prefix lists to the specified neighbor and whether it accepts prefix lists from the neighbor. The speaker sends a prefix list if it indicated the ability to send them, and if the neighbor indicated it was willing to accept them. Similarly, the neighbor sends a prefix list to the speaker if it indicated the ability to send them and the speaker indicated the willingness to accept them.

Note	The capability orf and prefix list filter specified by orf route-policy must be explicitly configured.

If the neighbor sends a prefix list and the speaker accepts it, the speaker applies the received prefix list, plus any locally configured outbound filters, to limit its outbound routing updates to the neighbor. Increased filtering prevents unwanted routing updates between neighbors and reduces resource requirements for routing update generation and processing.

Use the capability orf prefix command to set whether to advertise send and receive capabilities to the specified neighbor.

Note	Sending a receive capability can adversely affect performance, because updates sent to that neighbor cannot be replicated for any other neighbors.

If this command is configured for a neighbor group or neighbor address family group, all neighbors using the group inherit the configuration. Values of commands configured specifically for a neighbor override inherited values.

Related Commands

To suppress 4-byte AS capability from being advertised to the BGP peer, use the capability suppress 4-byte-as command in the appropriate configuration mode. To remove the capability suppress 4-byte-as command from the configuration and restore the system to the default condition, in which the software advertises the capability, use the no form of this command.

Command Default

4-byte-as capability is advertised to the BGP peer.

Command Modes

Neighbor configuration

Neighbor group configuration

Session group configuration

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

By default, the software advertises the 4-byte AS capability to BGP peers. To override this default behavior, use the capability suppress 4-byte-as command under the command modes listed in the ''Command Modes'' section. If configured under the neighbor group or session group, all neighbors using the group inherit the configuration. Use the no option to remove the command.

Caution

The BGP session resets automatically, if the 4-byte AS capability of an existing BGP session is changed by configuring capability suppress 4-byte-as or capability suppress 4-byte-as inheritance-disable .

To reset a group of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) neighbors, use the clear bgp command in XR EXEC mode.

Command Default

No default behavior or values

Command Modes

XR EXEC

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the clear bgp command to reset the sessions of the specified group of neighbors (hard reset); it removes the TCP connection to the neighbor, removes all routes received from the neighbor from the BGP table, and then re-establishes the session with the neighbor.

If the graceful keyword is specified, the routes from the neighbor are not removed from the BGP table immediately, but are marked as stale. After the session is re-established, any stale route that has not been received again from the neighbor is removed.

Related Commands

To clear Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route dampening information and unsuppress the suppressed routes, use the clear bgp dampening command in XR EXEC mode.

Command Default

If no IP address is specified, dampening information for all routes is cleared.

Command Modes

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

clear bgp ipv4 unicast dampening prefix x.x.x./y

Related Commands

To clear all Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) external peers, use the clear bgp external command in XR EXEC mode.

Command Default

No default behavior or value

Command Modes

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

To clear Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flap counts for a specified group of routes, use the clear bgp flap-statistics command in XR EXEC mode.

Command Default

No default behavior or value

Command Modes

EXEC

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

To reset the number of received notifications and the cumulative processing time for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) next hop, use the clear bgp nexthop performance-statistics command in XR EXEC mode.

Command Default

No default behavior or values

Command Modes

Usage Guidelines

To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.

Use the clear bgp nexthop performance-statistics command to reset the total number of notifications received from the Routing Information Base (RIB) and the cumulative next-hop processing time. The following information is cleared from the show bgp nexthops command output: