BGP Configuration Guidelines

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Configuring BGP
• Minimum BGP Configuration
• Enabling BGP
• Configuring BGP Groups and Peers
• Examples: Configuring BGP Groups, Peers, and Confederations
• Configuring the Delay Before BGP Peers Mark the Routing Device as Down
• Configuring MTU Discovery for BGP Sessions
• Configuring Graceful Restart for BGP
• Advertising Explicit Null Labels to BGP Peers
• Configuring Aggregate Labels for VPNs
• Configuring Authentication for BGP
• Using IPsec to Protect BGP Traffic
• Disabling Transmission of Open Requests to BGP Peers
• Configuring a Local Endpoint Address for BGP Sessions
• Configuring the MED in BGP Updates
• Controlling BGP Route Aggregation
• Configuring EBGP Multihop Sessions
• Configuring Single-Hop EBGP Peers to Accept Remote Next Hops
• Configuring the Local Preference Value for BGP Routes
• Configuring the Default Preference Value for BGP Routes
• Configuring Routing Table Path Selection for BGP
• Example: Always Comparing MEDs
• Selecting Multiple Equal-Cost Active Paths
• Configuring a Local AS for EBGP Sessions
• Removing Private AS Numbers from AS Paths
• Configuring BGP Route Reflection
• Configuring Flap Damping for BGP Routes
• Enabling Multiprotocol BGP
• Enabling BGP to Carry Flow-Specification Routes
• Enabling BGP to Carry CLNS Routes
• Enabling BGP Route Target Filtering
• Applying Filters Provided by BGP Peers to Outbound Routes
• Enabling Layer 2 VPN and VPLS Signaling
• Applying Policies to BGP Routes
• Preventing Automatic Reestablishment of BGP Peering Sessions After NSR Switchovers
• Configuring EBGP Peering Using IPv6 Link-Local Addresses
• Configuring IPv6 BGP Routes over IPv4 Transport
• Configuring System Logging of BGP Peer State Transitions
• Configuring a Text Description for BGP Groups or Peers
• Restricting TCP Connections to BGP Peers
• Applying BGP Export Policy to VRF Routes
• Including Next-Hop Reachability Information in Multiprotocol Updates
• Configuring BFD for BGP
• Overview of BFD Authentication for BGP
• Configuring BFD Authentication for BGP
• Limiting TCP Segment Size for BGP
• Configuring the BGP Monitoring Protocol
• Configuring BGP to Drop Path Attributes
• Configuring BGP to Ignore Path Attributes
• Tracing BGP Protocol Traffic