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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