Chapter 15: Configuring BGP on the SSR
Configuring Your SSR for BGP
The following sections describe how to use CoreWatch to set up global BGP parameters
on the SSR, configure new BGP peer groups for the SSR, and modify existing peer groups
on the SSR.
Setting BGP Global Parameters
You can use CoreWatch to set global BGP parameters to start or stop BGP on the SSR and
specify BGP preference and metric values, as well as the cluster identification.
To set the SSR's global BGP parameters:
1.
Start Configuration Expert if you have not already done so.
2.
Open the configuration file you want to modify and then double-click that file's
Routing Configuration object.
3.
Double-click the IP Routing Configuration object.
4.
Double-click the IP Unicast Routing object.
5.
Double-click the BGP object and click the BGP Global Parameters object.
A BGP Global Parameters dialog box similar to the following appears:
6.
Set the BGP Facility State option to Start or Stop.
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Figure 181. BGP Global Parameters dialog box
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