Configuration Information; Bgp Configuration - Dell S6100 Configuration Manual

• Multiple BPG process instances are not supported. Thus, the f10BgpM2PeerInstance field in various tables is not used to locate a peer.
• Multiple instances of the same NLRI in the BGP RIB are not supported and are set to zero in the SNMP query response.
• The f10BgpM2NlriIndex and f10BgpM2AdjRibsOutIndex fields are not used.
• Carrying MPLS labels in BGP is not supported. The f10BgpM2NlriOpaqueType and f10BgpM2NlriOpaquePointer fields are set to zero.
• 4-byte ASN is supported. The f10BgpM2AsPath4byteEntry table contains 4-byte ASN-related parameters based on the configuration.
• If a received update route matches with a local prefix, then that route is discarded. This behavior results from an incorrect BGP
configuration. To overcome this issue, you can trigger a route refresh after you properly configure BGP.
Traps (notifications) specified in the BGP4 MIB draft <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4–mibv2–05.txt> are not supported. Such traps
(bgpM2Established and bgpM2BackwardTransition) are supported as part of RFC 1657.

Configuration Information

The software supports BGPv4 as well as the following:
• deterministic multi-exit discriminator (MED) (default)
• a path with a missing MED is treated as worst path and assigned an MED value of (0xffffffff)
• the community format follows RFC 1998
• delayed configuration (the software at system boot reads the entire configuration file prior to sending messages to start BGP peer
sessions)
The following are not yet supported:
• auto-summarization (the default is no auto-summary)
• synchronization (the default is no synchronization)

BGP Configuration

To enable the BGP process and begin exchanging information, assign an AS number and use commands in ROUTER BGP mode to
configure a BGP neighbor.
By default, BGP is disabled.
By default, Dell Networking OS compares the MED attribute on different paths from within the same AS (the bgp always-compare-
med command is not enabled).
NOTE: In Dell Networking OS, all newly configured neighbors and peer groups are disabled. To enable a neighbor or peer group,
enter the neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} no shutdown command.
The following table displays the default values for BGP on Dell Networking OS.
Table 9. BGP Default Values
Item
BGP Neighbor Adjacency changes
Fast External Fallover feature
Graceful Restart feature
Local preference
MED
Route Flap Damping Parameters
178 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
Default
All BGP neighbor changes are logged.
Disabled
Disabled
100
0
half-life = 15 minutes
reuse = 750