Bgp Configuration; Bgp Overview; Formats Of Bgp Messages - HP 3600 v2 series Configuration Manual

BGP configuration

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a dynamic inter-AS Exterior Gateway Protocol.
NOTE:
The term
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The 3600 v2 SI Switch Series does not support BGP.
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BGP overview

The three early BGP versions are BGP- 1 (RFC 1 105), BGP-2 (RFC 1 163) and BGP-3 (RFC 1267). The
current version is BGP-4 (RFC 4271), and is the Internet exterior gateway protocol.
BGP has the following characteristics:
• Focuses on the control of route propagation and the selection of optimal routes rather than the route
discovery and calculation, which makes BGP, an exterior gateway protocol different from interior
gateway protocols such as OSPF and RIP
Uses TCP to enhance reliability
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• Supports CIDR
Reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only incremental updates and is applicable to
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advertising a great amount of routing information on the Internet
Eliminates routing loops completely by adding AS path information to BGP route advertisements
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• Provides abundant policies to implement flexible route filtering and selection
Provides good scalability
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A router advertising BGP messages is called a "BGP speaker". It establishes peer relationships with other
BGP speakers to exchange routing information. When a BGP speaker receives a new route or a route
better than the current one from another AS, it will advertise the route to all the other BGP peers in the
local AS.
To simplify configuration, multiple peers using an identical policy can be organized as a peer group.
BGP runs on a router in either of the following modes:
iBGP (internal BGP)
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eBGP (external BGP)
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BGP is called "iBGP" when it runs within an AS, and is called "eBGP" when it runs between ASs.

Formats of BGP messages

Header
BGP has the following types of messages:
• Open
Update
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Notification
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router
refers to both routers and Layer 3 switches, and BGP refers to BGP-4 in this document.
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