Configuring Mbgp Basic Functions; Configuration Prerequisites; Configuration Procedure - HP A5500 SI Switch Series Configuration Manual

Task
reception
Configuring MBGP
route attributes
Tuning and
optimizing MBGP
networks
Configuring a large
scale MBGP network

Configuring MBGP basic functions

Configuration prerequisites

Before you configure MBGP, be sure that neighboring nodes can access each other at the network layer.

Configuration procedure

Follow these steps to configure MBGP basic functions:
To do...
Enter system view
Enter BGP view
Specify a peer or peer group and
its AS number
Enter IPv4 MBGP address family
view
Enable a peer or peer group
created in IPv4 unicast view
Configuring MBGP route summarization
Advertising a default route to an IPv4 MBGP peer or peer
group
Configuring outbound MBGP route filtering
Configuring inbound MBGP route filtering
Configuring MBGP route dampening
Configuring MBGP route preferences
Configuring the default local preference
Configuring the MED attribute
Configuring the Next Hop attribute
Configuring the AS-PATH attribute
Configuring MBGP soft reset
Enabling the MBGP ORF capability
Configuring the maximum number of MBGP routes for load
balancing
Configuring IPv4 MBGP peer groups
Configuring MBGP community
Configuring an MBGP route reflector
Use the command...
system-view
bgp as-number
peer { group-name | ip-address }
as-number as-number
ipv4-family multicast
peer { group-name | ip-address }
enable
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