Deployment Guide

Usage Information This feature advertises to BGP neighbors through a capability advertisement. In Receiver Only mode, BGP saves
the advertised routes of peers that support this capability when they restart.
neighbor local-as
To accept external routes from neighbors with a local AS number in the AS number path, congure Internal BGP (IBGP) routers.
Syntax
neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} local-as as-number [no-prepend]
To return to the default value, use the no neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} local-as
command.
Parameters
ip-address Enter the IP address of the neighbor in dotted decimal format.
peer-group-name Enter the name of the peer group to set the advertisement interval for all routers in the
peer group.
as-number Enter the AS number to reset all neighbors belonging to that AS. The range is from 0 to
65535 (2 byte), from 1 to 4294967295 (4 byte) or from 0.1 to 65535.65535 (dotted
format).
no prepend Species that local AS values do not prepend to announcements from the neighbor.
Defaults Not congured.
Command Modes ROUTER BGP
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.2(0.0) Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Related Commands bgp four-octet-as-support — enables 4-byte support for the BGP process.
neighbor maximum-prex
Control the number of network prexes received.
Syntax
neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} maximum-prefix maximum [threshold]
[warning-only]
To return to the default values, use the no neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} maximum-
prefix maximum command.
Parameters
ip-address Enter the IP address of the neighbor in dotted decimal format.
peer-group-name Enter the name of the peer group.
maximum Enter a number as the maximum number of prexes allowed for this BGP router. The
range is from 1 to 4294967295.
318 Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)