BGP and BGP4+ Introduction

Term

Description

route map

Enables logic to be applied to a set of items. Often used for

 

decisions about what routes to redistribute and for setting

 

characteristics of those routes, for instance, metric values.

 

 

route redistribution

The process of taking routes known through one routing

 

protocol and advertising those routes with another routing

 

protocol.

 

 

route summarization

A consolidation of advertised addresses that causes a single

 

summary route to be advertised.

 

 

summary route

A route that is created to represent one or more smaller

 

component routes, typically to reduce the size of routing and

 

topology tables.

 

 

 

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

 

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