Protocols and Standards
RFC2858: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
RFC3392: Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
draft-ietf-idmr-bgp-mcast-attr-00: BGP Attributes for Multicast Tree Construction
MBGP Configuration Task List
Complete the following tasks to configure MBGP:
Configuring MBGP Basic Functions
Controlling Route
Advertisement and
Reception
Configuring MBGP
Route Attributes
Tuning and
Optimizing MBGP
Networks
Configuring a
Large Scale
MBGP Network
Configuring MBGP Basic Functions
Prerequisites
Before configuring MBGP, make sure neighboring nodes can access each other at the network layer.
Task
Configuring MBGP Route Redistribution
Configure Default Route Redistribution into MBGP
Configuring MBGP Route Summarization
Advertising a Default Route to an IPv4 MBGP Peer or Peer
Group
Configuring Outbound MBGP Route Filtering
Configuring Inbound MBGP Route Filtering
Configuring MBGP Route Dampening
Configuring MBGP Route Preferences
Configuring the Default Local Preference
Configuring the MED Attribute
Configuring the Next Hop Attribute
Configuring the AS-PATH Attribute
Configuring MBGP Soft Reset
Configuring the Maximum Number of MBGP Routes
Configuring IPv4 MBGP Peer Groups
Configuring MBGP Community
Configuring an MBGP Route Reflector
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