Defining Peer Properties

When you use the neighbor statement to configure BGP peers statically, you also can define peer-specific properties. For more information, see Summary of BGP Configuration Statements.

advertise-inactive; 

advertise-peer-as;

as-override;

authentication-algorithm algorithm;

authentication-key key;

authentication-key-chain key-chain;

cluster cluster-identifier; 

damping; 

description text-description; 

export [ policy-names ]; 

family     {

    (iso-vpn | inet | inet6 | inet-vpn | inet6-vpn | l2-vpn) {

        (any | multicast | unicast | signaling) {

            prefix-limit {

                maximum number;

                teardown <percentage> <idle-timeout (forever | time-in-minutes)>;

            }

            rib-group group-name; 

        }

        flow {

            no-validate policy-name;

        }

        labeled-unicast {

            explicit-null {

                connected-only;

            }

            prefix-limit {

                maximum number;

                teardown <percentage> <idle-timeout (forever | time-in-minutes)>;

            }

            resolve-vpn;

            rib inet.3;

            rib-group group-name;

        }

    }

    route-target {

        advertise-default;

        external-paths number;

        prefix-limit {

            maximum number;

            teardown <percentage> <idle-timeout (forever | time-in-minutes)>;

        }

    }

            signaling {

                prefix-limit {

                    maximum number;

                    teardown <percentage> <idle-timeout (forever | minutes)>;

                }

    }

}

graceful-restart {

    disable;

    restart-time seconds;

    stale-routes-time seconds;

}

hold-time seconds; 

import [ policy-names ]; 

ipsec-sa ipsec-sa; 

keep (all | none);   

local-address address; 

local-as autonomous-system <private>; 

local-interface interface-name;

local-preference preference; 

log-updown;   

metric-out (metric | minimum-igp <offset> | igp <offset>); 

mtu-discovery

multihop <ttl-value>; 

multipath {

    multiple-as; 

}

no-advertise-peer-as;

no-aggregator-id;   

no-client-reflect;

out-delay seconds; 

passive;   

peer-as autonomous-system;

preference preference; 

tcp-mss segment-size;

traceoptions {

    file name <replace> <size size> <files number> <no-stamp> 

        <(world-readable | no-world-readable)>;

    flag flag <flag-modifier> <disable>;

}

vpn-apply-export;

For a list of hierarchy levels at which you can configure these statements, see the statement summary sections for these statements.