BGP

This section describes the following functionality:

• Using a router interface address as the BGP local address

For general information about BGP support, see the topics listed below in the "BGP" chapter of the 7450 ESS, 7750 SR, 7950 XRS, and VSR Unicast Routing Protocols Guide.

• BGP overview

• BGP sessions

  • BGP session state

  • Detecting BGP session failures

    • Peer tracking

    • Bidirectional forwarding detection

  • High availability BGP sessions (BGP graceful restart only)

  • BGP session security

  • BGP address family support for different session types

  • BGP groups

• BGP design concepts

• BGP messages

• BGP path attributes

  • Origins

  • AS path

  • Next-hop

    • Unlabeled IPv4 unicast routes

    • Unlabeled IPv6 unicast routes

    • VPN-IPv4 routes

    • VPN-IPv6 routes

    • Next-Hop resolution

    • Next-Hop tracking

  • Local preference

  • Route aggregation path attributes

  • Community attributes

  • Route reflection attributes

  • 4-Octet AS attributes

  • AIGP metric

• BGP routing information base (RIB)

• BGP applications

  • BGP prefix origin validation

  • BGP route leaking

  • BGP optimal route reflection

• BGP configuration process overview

• Configuration notes

• Configuring BGP with CLI

• BGP configuration management tasks

For descriptions of BGP commands, see the 7450 ESS, 7750 SR, 7950 XRS, and VSR Classic CLI Command Reference Guide and to the 7450 ESS, 7750 SR, 7950 XRS, and VSR Clear, Monitor, Show, and Tools Command Reference Guide.