Huawei Quidway S6500 Series Operation Manual page 231

Operation Manual - Routing Protocol
Quidway S6500 Series Ethernet Switches
II. Peer configuration VS peer group configuration
In Quidway S6500 Series Ethernet Switches, a BGP peer must belong to a peer group.
If you want to configure a BGP peer, you need first to create a peer group and then add
a peer into the group.
BGP peer group feature can simplify user configuration and improve route
advertisement efficiency. When added into a peer group, a peer inherits all the
configuration of the group.
If the configuration of a peer group changes, the configuration of its member peers also
alters. Some attributes can be configured to a particular member peer by specifying its
IP address. The attributes configured in this way is with higher priority than those by
configuring for peer group. It should be noted that all member peers must use the same
update policy as its group, but may use different ingress policy.
6.2 BGP Configuration
These categories are involved in BGP configuration:
1) Basic BGP configuration
Enabling BGP
Configuring basic features for BGP peer
2) BGP peer configuration
Configuring application features for BGP peer
Configuring route filtering for BGP peer
3) BGP route configuration
Configuring BGP-advertised network routes
Configuring interaction between BGP and IGP
Configuring BGP route aggregation
Configuring BGP route filtering
Configuring BGP route dampening
4) BGP protocol configuration
Configuring BGP preference
Configuring BGP timer
Configuring local precedence
Configuring MED value of AS
5) BGP application configuration
Comparing MED values from different AS neighbors
6) BGP networking configuration
Configuring BGP Route Reflector
Configuring AS confederation attributes
7) Others
Resetting BGP connection
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Chapter 6 BGP Configuration