Configuring a bgp peer – H3C Technologies H3C S12500 Series Switches User Manual

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If the router ID is specified in BGP view and then the interface that owns the router ID is removed,

the device does not select a new router ID; using the undo router-id command in BGP view can
make the router select a new router ID.

To enable BGP:

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Configure a global router ID. router id router-id

Optional.
Not configured by default.
If no global router ID is configured,
the highest loopback interface IP

address—if any—is used as the
router ID. If no loopback interface

IP address is available, the highest

physical interface IP address is

used, regardless of the interface
status.

3.

Enable BGP and enter BGP
view or BGP-VPN instance

view.

To enter BGP view:

bgp as-number

To enter BGP-VPN instance

view:

a.

bgp as-number

b.

ipv4-family vpn-instance

vpn-instance-name

Use either method.
By default, BGP is disabled.
A router can reside in only one AS,

so the router can run only one BGP
process.

4.

Specify a router ID

router-id [ auto-select | router-id ]

Optional.
By default, the global router ID is

used.

Configuring a BGP peer

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enter BGP view or BGP-VPN
instance view.

Enter BGP view:

bgp as-number

Enter BGP-VPN instance view:

a.

bgp as-number

b.

ipv4-family vpn-instance

vpn-instance-name

Use either method.

3.

Create a BGP peer and
specify its AS number.

peer

ip-address

as-number

as-number

By default, no BGP peer is created.

4.

Enable the default use of IPv4
unicast address family for the

peers that are established

using the peer as-number
command.

default ipv4-unicast

Optional.
Enabled by default.
This command is not supported in

BGP-VPN instance view.

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