Configuring a large scale mbgp network, Prerequisites, Configuring ipv4 mbgp peer groups – H3C Technologies H3C S10500 Series Switches User Manual

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To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter BGP view

bgp as-number

Enter IPv4 MBGP address family
view

ipv4-family multicast

Configure the maximum number of
MBGP routes for load balancing

balance number

Required
Not configured by default.

Configuring a large scale MBGP network

Prerequisites

Before you configure this task, you must make peering nodes accessible to each other at the network

layer.

Configuring ipv4 MBGP peer groups

In a large-scale network, configuration and maintenance become difficult due to large numbers of MBGP

peers. You can configure peer groups to make management easier and improve route distribution

efficiency.
Follow these steps to configure an IPv4 MBGP peer group:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

Enter BGP view

bgp as-number

Create a BGP peer group

group group-name [ external |
internal ]

Required
Not created by default.

Add a peer into the peer group

peer ip-address group group-name
[ as-number as-number ]

Required
No peer is added by default.

Enter IPv4 MBGP address family
view

ipv4-family multicast

Enable the IPv4 unicast peer group peer group-name enable

Required

Add an IPv4 MBGP peer to the
peer group

peer ip-address group group-name

Required
Not configured by default.

CAUTION:

To configure an MBGP peer group, you must enable the corresponding IPv4 BGP unicast peer group in
IPv4 MBGP address family view.

Before adding an MBGP peer to an MBGP peer group, you must add the corresponding IPv4 unicast
peer to the IPv4 BGP peer group.

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