Avocent Cyclades-PR2000 installation manual BGP-4 Configuration

Cyclades-PR2000

BGP-4 Configuration

The BGP-4 routing protocol is used for routing on the Internet, performed between Autonomous Systems (ASs). An autonomous system is defined as:

·A set of routers and networks under the same administration.

·An interconnected network, where no router is reachable solely through a path exterior to the AS

Each AS is identified by a 16-bit AS number. This number is supplied by the service provider.

Steps

1.Complete the Global Parameters

2.Register the neighbors of the autonomous system, the routers with which this router exchanges information.

At this point, the BGP-4 protocol is up and running. All remaining steps are fine tuning to improve performance and reduce the size of the routing table.

If some routes that might be received are undesired, they can be filtered as they enter (or leave) so that they are not placed in the routing table (or are not propagated to other autonomous systems).

This requires the following three steps:

3.Create an Access List

4.Add rules to the Access List

5.Return to the Neighbor configuration and match each list to the neighbor it should be applied to.

In some cases, a route should be accepted, but with changes determined by policies defined by the system administrator. In this case, a route map should be created indicating which of the path attributes of the incoming (or outgoing) message should be changed. This route map can be associated with a filter so that only specific rules will be altered. The steps are the following:

6.Create a route map/sequence pair

7.Edit the neighbor definition to link it to the new route map

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