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OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Advanced Routing Configuration Guide March 2015 page 4-1
4 Configuring BGP
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an exterior routing protocol that guarantees the loop-free exchange
of routing information between autonomous systems. The Alcatel-Lucent implementation supports BGP
version 4
and the RFCs specified below.
This chapter describes the configuration and use of BGP in IPv4 and IPv6 environments using the
Command Line Interface (CLI). The Alcatel-Lucent implementation of BGP-4 and Multiprotocol
Extensions to BGP-4 is based on several RFCs listed below. CLI commands are used in the configuration
examples in this chapter. For more details about the syntax of these commands, see the OmniSwitch AOS
Release 7 CLI Reference Guide.
Note. In this document, the BGP terms “peer” and “neighbor” are used interchangeably.
Note. This implementation of BGP allows the configuration and management of BGP in IPv4 and IPv6
environments through CLI, WebView, and SNMP interfaces.