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router must also have a route to the external peer that is not directly connected
in order to establish a connection.
Peer Weight
The peer weight value assigns an internal rating to the peer. Peers with a
higher weight are preferred when multiple routes exist to the same destina-
tion. The number must be within the range of 0 to 65,535.
Peer Retry Time
The amount of time, in seconds, between retries to establish a connection to
configured peers which have gone down for some reason. The value must be
at least 10 seconds.
Peer Hold Time
The interval, in seconds, the router will wait for an update or keepalive packet
from the peer before declaring the peer down. The hold time is actually nego-
tiated between peers, which will use the smaller of the two hold times
proposed. The value must be either 0, or at least 3 seconds. If zero is selected,
keepalive packets will not be sent.
Use BGP Loopback
This checkbox allows the router’s loopback address to be used as the IP
source in TCP packets to that peer rather than a specific IP address of one of
its interfaces.
v Note: If this box is checked, you must specify an IP address in the IP Loop-
back Dialog Box.
Advertise Default Route
This checkbox sets whether the default route to this peer will be advertised to
other peers.
IP Loopback Dialog Box
This dialog box allows an IP Loopback address to be specified for the router.
This parameter only needs to be set if you are using the BGP protocol and the
Use BGP Loopback option is specified.
IP Loopback Dialog Box