Enabling 4-byte as number suppression – H3C Technologies H3C S10500 Series Switches User Manual
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To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enter BGP view
bgp as-number
—
Enable BGP route refresh for a 
peer or peer group 
peer { group-name | ip-address } 
capability-advertise route-refresh 
Required 
Enabled by default. 
Enable the non-standard ORF
capability for a BGP peer or peer 
group 
peer { group-name | ip-address }
capability-advertise orf 
non-standard 
Optional 
By default, standard BGP ORF 
capability defined in RFC 5291 
and RFC 5292 is supported. 
If the peer supports only 
non-standard ORF, you need to 
configure this command.
Enable the ORF capability for a 
BGP peer or peer group 
peer { group-name | ip-address } 
capability-advertise orf ip-prefix 
{ both | receive | send }
Required 
Disabled by default. 
Table 5 Description of the both, send, and receive parameters and the negotiation result
Local parameter
Peer parameter Negotiation
result
receive
send
both
The ORF sending capability is enabled locally and the 
ORF receiving capability is enabled on the peer. 
send
receive
both
The ORF receiving capability is enabled locally and the
ORF sending capability is enabled on the peer.
both both
Both the ORF sending and receiving capabilities are 
enabled locally and on the peer, respectively. 
Enabling 4-byte AS number suppression
When a switch that supports 4-byte AS numbers sends an Open message for peer relationship
establishment, the Optional parameters field of the message indicates that the AS number occupies four
bytes—in the range of 1 to 4294967295. If the peer device does not support 4-byte AS numbers (for 
examples, it supports only 2-byte AS numbers), the peer relationship cannot be established. 
After you enable the 4-byte AS number suppression function, the peer device can then process the Open 
message even though it does not support 4-byte AS numbers, and the BGP peer relationship can be
established. 
Follow these steps to enable 4-byte AS number suppression: 
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view —
Enter BGP view
bgp as-number
—
Enable 4-byte AS number 
suppression 
peer { group-name | ip-address } 
capability-advertise suppress-4-byte-as 
Required 
Disabled by default.