BGP Attributes...................................................................................................................................169
Best Path Selection Criteria........................................................................................................169
Weight...........................................................................................................................................171
Local Preference..........................................................................................................................172
Multi-Exit Discriminators (MEDs)................................................................................................172
Origin............................................................................................................................................173
AS Path.........................................................................................................................................174
Next Hop......................................................................................................................................174
Multiprotocol BGP.............................................................................................................................175
Implement BGP with Dell Networking OS.......................................................................................175
Additional Path (Add-Path) Support............................................................................................175
Advertise IGP Cost as MED for Redistributed Routes................................................................176
Ignore Router-ID for Some Best-Path Calculations..................................................................177
Four-Byte AS Numbers................................................................................................................177
AS4 Number Representation.......................................................................................................177
AS Number Migration..................................................................................................................179
BGP4 Management Information Base (MIB)...............................................................................181
Important Points to Remember..................................................................................................181
Configuration Information................................................................................................................182
BGP Configuration............................................................................................................................182
Enabling BGP...............................................................................................................................183
Configuring AS4 Number Representations................................................................................187
Configuring Peer Groups............................................................................................................189
Configuring BGP Fast Fall-Over..................................................................................................191
Configuring Passive Peering.......................................................................................................193
Maintaining Existing AS Numbers During an AS Migration........................................................194
Allowing an AS Number to Appear in its Own AS Path..............................................................195
Enabling Graceful Restart...........................................................................................................196
Enabling Neighbor Graceful Restart...........................................................................................197
Filtering on an AS-Path Attribute................................................................................................198
Regular Expressions as Filters.....................................................................................................199
Redistributing Routes..................................................................................................................201
Enabling Additional Paths...........................................................................................................201
Configuring IP Community Lists................................................................................................202
Configuring an IP Extended Community List............................................................................203
Filtering Routes with Community Lists......................................................................................204
Manipulating the COMMUNITY Attribute..................................................................................205
Changing MED Attributes...........................................................................................................207
Changing the LOCAL_PREFERENCE Attribute..........................................................................207
Changing the NEXT_HOP Attribute...........................................................................................208
Changing the WEIGHT Attribute................................................................................................208
Enabling Multipath......................................................................................................................209
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