Allied Telesis VERSION 5.4.3-2.6 manual BGP and BGP4+ Introduction

BGP and BGP4+ Introduction

The synchronization feature tells a BGP router not to consider an iBGP-learned route as best unless the prefix is learned locally or via an IGP and is currently in the IP routing table.

BGP synchronization prevents reachability issues by preventing a BGP router advertising routes learned from an iBGP peer unless the route is learned locally, or via an IGP.

If the route does not exist in the routing table, because an IGP has not learned the route, then BGP will not use or advertise the learned prefix. If BGP advertised the route to an external peer, then the external peer would consider that path valid. This is the resulting problem if synchronization is not enabled and there are non-BGP routers in the transit AS.

The eBGP peer would send traffic to the BGP router advertising the prefix and that router would be able to pass the traffic on since the IGP routers between the two iBGP routers do not know the prefix.

	Software Reference Supplement for SwitchBlade® x8112, x908, x900 and x610 Series Switches
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