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Exterior Gateway Routing
Protocols
This chapter covers the following topics:
• Overview on page 13-2
• BGP Attributes on page 13-2
• BGP Communities on page 13-3
• BGP Features on page 13-3
• Configuring BGP on page 13-10
• Displaying BGP Settings on page 13-15
• Resetting and Disabling BGP on page 13-15
This chapter describes how to configure the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), an exterior
routing protocol available on the switch.
For more information on BGP, refer to the following documents:
• RFC 1771 – Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4)
• RFC 1965 – Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
• RFC 1966 – BGP Route Reflection
• RFC 1996 – BGP Communities Attribute
• RFC 1743 – BGP/OSPF Interaction
ExtremeWare supports BGP version 4 only.