# Features

Some of the more important BGP features supported by the E Series router are the following:

- Access lists
- Advertisement intervals
- Aggregation
- BGP/MPLS VPNs
- Communities
- Confederations
- EBGP multihop
- IBGP single hop
- Highly scalable BGP-4 architecture
- Multicast
- Next-hop self
- Peer groups
- Route dampening (also referred to as route damping)
- Route mapping and attribute manipulation
- Route origins
- Route redistribution
- Route reflectors
- Soft-reconfiguration inbound
- Synchronization enabling and disabling
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