User guide

Configuring BGP BGP Specifications
OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Advanced Routing Configuration Guide March 2015 page 4-3
BGP Specifications
Platforms Supported OmniSwitch 10K, 6900
RFCs Supported 1771/4271–A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
2439–BGP Route Flap Damping
3392/5492–Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
2385–Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5
Signature Option
1997–BGP Communities Attribute
4456–BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh
Internal BGP (IBGP)
3065–Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
4273–Definitions of Managed Objects for BGP-4
4486–Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification
4760–Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
2545–Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6
Inter-Domain Routing
2918 - Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
4724 - Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
6793 - BGP 4-octet ASN
5668 - 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
2042 - Registering New BGP Attribute Types
5396 -Textual Representation of Autonomous System
(AS) Numbers
BGP Attributes Supported Origin, AS Path, Next Hop (IPv4), MED, Local
Preference, Atomic Aggregate, Aggregator (IPv4),
Community, Originator ID, Cluster List, Multiprotocol
Reachable NLRI (IPv6), Multiprotocol Unreachable NLRI
(IPv6), AS4 Path, AS4 Aggregator (IPv4), and AS
Specific Extended Community.
Maximum number of peers 512
Maximum number of networks 4K
Maximum number of aggregation
addresses
2K
Maximum number of routes OS10K - 256K
OS6900 - 128K
Maximum number of policies 1K
License Requirements Advanced License required on OmniSwitch 6900 only.