Dell C9000 Series Networking Configuration Manual page 242

order in which they arrived (starting with the most recent). Furthermore, in non-deterministic mode, the
software may not compare MED attributes though the paths are from the same AS.
• Change the best path selection method to non-deterministic.
Change the best path selection method to non-deterministic.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode
bgp non-deterministic-med
NOTE: When you change the best path selection method, path selection for existing paths remains
unchanged until you reset it by entering the clear ip bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode.
Examples of Working with Route Dampening
To view the BGP configuration, use the show config command in CONFIGURATION ROUTER BGP mode or
the show running-config bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode.
The following example shows how to configure values to reuse or restart a route. In the following example,
default = 15 is the set time before the value decrements, bgp dampening 2 ? is the set re-advertise
value, bgp dampening 2 2000 ? is the suppress value, and bgp dampening 2 2000 3000 ? is the time
to suppress a route. Default values are also shown.
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening ?
<1-45> Half-life time for the penalty (default = 15)
route-map Route-map to specify criteria for dampening
<cr>
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 ?
<1-20000> Value to start reusing a route (default = 750)
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 2000 ?
<1-20000> Value to start suppressing a route (default = 2000)
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 2000 3000 ?
<1-255> Maximum duration to suppress a stable route (default = 60)
Dell(conf-router_bgp)#bgp dampening 2 2000 3000 10 ?
route-map Route-map to specify criteria for dampening
<cr>
To view a count of dampened routes, history routes, and penalized routes when you enable route
dampening, look at the seventh line of the show ip bgp summary command output, as shown in the
following example (bold).
Dell>show ip bgp summary
BGP router identifier 10.114.8.131, local AS number 65515
BGP table version is 855562, main routing table version 780266
122836 network entrie(s) and 221664 paths using 29697640 bytes of memory
34298 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 1920688 bytes of memory
29577 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 1384403 bytes of memory
184 BGP community entrie(s) using 7616 bytes of memory
Dampening enabled. 0 history paths, 0 dampened paths, 0 penalized paths
Neighbor AS
10.114.8.34 18508 82883
10.114.8.33 18508 117265
Dell>
To view which routes are dampened (non-active), use the show ip bgp dampened-routes command in
EXEC Privilege mode.
MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer
79977 780266
25069 780266
InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
0 2 00:38:51 118904
0 20 00:38:50 102759
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