Protocol-Independent Routing Properties Overview
Protocol-independent routing properties affect systemwide routing operations. For the most part, these properties are independent of any routing protocols. The protocol-independent routing properties allow you to do the following:
- Add routing table entries, including static routes, aggregated (coalesced) routes, generated routes (routes of last resort), and martian routes (routes to ignore).
- Create additional routing tables and routing table groups.
- Set the autonomous system (AS) number of the router for use by BGP.
- Set the router ID, which is used by BGP and OSPF to identify the router from which a packet originated.
- Define BGP confederation members for use by BGP.
- Configure multicast administrative scoping.
- Configure how much system logging information to log for the routing protocol process.
- Configure systemwide tracing (debugging) to track standard and unusual routing operations and record this information in a log file.
This chapter discusses the following topics related to understanding and configuring protocol-independent routing properties: