- Written by Yaonan Liang
- Posted on April 30, 2025
- Updated on April 30, 2025
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Peer Tagging Route Filtering feature discards BGP route advertisements by the peers which the routes are received from. The feature lets users assign a peer-tag to a peer or a group of peers in inbound direction and discard routes advertisements by the peer-tag in outbound direction. One use case of the feature is to discard AS loop routes in outbound direction in data center deployments.
- Written by Yaonan Liang
- Posted on December 24, 2024
- Updated on March 21, 2025
- 1573 Views
BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) allows a monitoring station to connect to a router and collect all of the BGP announcements received from the router’s BGP peers. The announcements are sent to the station in the form of BMP Route Monitoring messages generated from path information in the router’s BGP internal tables. A BMP speaker may choose to send either Adj-Rib-In routes, or Loc-Rib routes (as defined by RFC9069), or both.
- Written by Yaonan Liang
- Posted on September 11, 2023
- Updated on September 14, 2023
- 4804 Views
Normally BGP allocates local labels and installs LFIB entries for all received IPv4/IPv6 Labeled Unicast (LU) routes in anticipation of readvertising them with nexthop-self. However, some deployments don’t require nexthop-self with LU routes, so LFIB hardware resources are needlessly allocated, which can present an issue in large scale LU deployments.
- Written by Yaonan Liang
- Posted on April 20, 2020
- Updated on April 20, 2020
- 7634 Views
This feature limits the maximum number of routes that BGP can advertise to a peer. When the maximum
- Written by Yaonan Liang
- Posted on October 11, 2019
- Updated on October 11, 2019
- 9123 Views
BGP update wait for convergence feature prevents BGP from programming routes into hardware and advertising routes
- Written by Yaonan Liang
- Posted on November 3, 2016
- Updated on February 8, 2017
- 8085 Views
The BGP Replace AS Path feature provides the capability to customize the AS PATH attribute for prefixes that are