Reference Guide

Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4) | 361
Defaults
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Command Modes
ROUTER BGP
Usage
Information
In the FTOS best path selection process, the path with the highest weight value is preferred.
If the set weight command is configured in a route map applied to this neighbor, the weight set in that
command overrides the weight set in the neighbor weight command.
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network
c e s
Specify the networks for the BGP process and enter them in the BGP routing table.
Syntax
network ip-address mask [route-map map-name]
To remove a network, use the no network ip-address mask [route-map map-name] command.
Parameters
Defaults
Not configured.
Command Modes
ROUTER BGP
peer-group-name
Enter the name of the peer group to disable all routers within the peer group.
weight
Enter a number as the weight.
Range: 0 to 65535
Default: 0
Note: Reset the neighbor connection (clear ip bgp ipv4 unicast soft * command) to apply the
weight to the connection and recompute the best path.
set weight Assign a weight to all paths meeting the route map criteria.
Version 7.8.1.0 Introduced support on S-Series
Version 7.7.1.0 Introduced support on C-Series
ip-address
Enter an IP address in dotted decimal format of the network.
mask
Enter the mask of the IP address in the slash prefix length format (for example, /24).
The mask appears in command outputs in dotted decimal format (A.B.C.D).
route-map
map-name
(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword route-map followed by the name of an established route
map.
Only the following ROUTE-MAP mode commands are supported:
• match ip address
• set community
• set local-preference
• set metric
• set next-hop
• set origin
• set weight
If the route map is not configured, the default is deny (to drop all routes).