path: root/docs/configuration/protocols/bgp.rst

.. _routing-bgp:

###
BGP
###

:abbr:`BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)` is one of the Exterior Gateway Protocols
and the de facto standard interdomain routing protocol. The latest BGP version
is 4. BGP-4 is described in :rfc:`1771` and updated by :rfc:`4271`. :rfc:`2858`
adds multiprotocol support to BGP.

VyOS makes use of :abbr:`FRR (Free Range Routing)` and we would like to thank
them for their effort!

**************
Basic Concepts
**************

.. _bgp-autonomous-systems:

Autonomous Systems
==================

From :rfc:`1930`:

  An AS is a connected group of one or more IP prefixes run by one or more
  network operators which has a SINGLE and CLEARLY DEFINED routing policy.

Each :abbr:`AS (Autonomous System)` has an identifying number associated with it
called an :abbr:`ASN (Autonomous System Number)`. This is a two octet value
ranging in value from 1 to 65535. The AS numbers 64512 through 65535 are defined
as private AS numbers. Private AS numbers must not be advertised on the global
Internet. The 2-byte AS number range has been exhausted. 4-byte AS numbers are
specified in :rfc:`6793`, and provide a pool of 4294967296 AS numbers.

The :abbr:`ASN (Autonomous System Number)` is one of the essential elements of
BGP. BGP is a distance vector routing protocol, and the AS-Path framework
provides distance vector metric and loop detection to BGP.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp local-as <asn>

  Set local :abbr:`ASN (Autonomous System Number)` that this router represents.
  This is a a mandatory option!

.. _bgp-address-families:

Address Families
================

Multiprotocol extensions enable BGP to carry routing information for multiple
network layer protocols. BGP supports an Address Family Identifier (AFI) for
IPv4 and IPv6.

.. _bgp-route-selection:

Route Selection
===============

The route selection process used by FRR's BGP implementation uses the following
decision criterion, starting at the top of the list and going towards the
bottom until one of the factors can be used.

1. **Weight check**

   Prefer higher local weight routes to lower routes.

2. **Local preference check**

   Prefer higher local preference routes to lower.

3. **Local route check**

   Prefer local routes (statics, aggregates, redistributed) to received routes.

4. **AS path length check**

   Prefer shortest hop-count AS_PATHs.

5. **Origin check**

   Prefer the lowest origin type route. That is, prefer IGP origin routes to
   EGP, to Incomplete routes.

6. **MED check**

   Where routes with a MED were received from the same AS, prefer the route
   with the lowest MED.

7. **External check**

   Prefer the route received from an external, eBGP peer over routes received
   from other types of peers.

8. **IGP cost check**

   Prefer the route with the lower IGP cost.

9. **Multi-path check**

   If multi-pathing is enabled, then check whether the routes not yet
   distinguished in preference may be considered equal. If
   :cfgcmd:`bgp bestpath as-path multipath-relax` is set, all such routes are
   considered equal, otherwise routes received via iBGP with identical AS_PATHs
   or routes received from eBGP neighbours in the same AS are considered equal.

10. **Already-selected external check**

    Where both routes were received from eBGP peers, then prefer the route
    which is already selected. Note that this check is not applied if
    :cfgcmd:`bgp bestpath compare-routerid` is configured. This check can
    prevent some cases of oscillation.

11. **Router-ID check**

    Prefer the route with the lowest `router-ID`. If the route has an
    `ORIGINATOR_ID` attribute, through iBGP reflection, then that router ID is
    used, otherwise the `router-ID` of the peer the route was received from is
    used.

12. **Cluster-List length check**

    The route with the shortest cluster-list length is used. The cluster-list
    reflects the iBGP reflection path the route has taken.

13. **Peer address**

    Prefer the route received from the peer with the higher transport layer
    address, as a last-resort tie-breaker.

.. _bgp-capability-negotiation:

Capability Negotiation
======================

When adding IPv6 routing information exchange feature to BGP. There were some
proposals. :abbr:`IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)`
:abbr:`IDR (Inter Domain Routing)` adopted a proposal called Multiprotocol
Extension for BGP. The specification is described in :rfc:`2283`. The protocol
does not define new protocols. It defines new attributes to existing BGP. When
it is used exchanging IPv6 routing information it is called BGP-4+. When it is
used for exchanging multicast routing information it is called MBGP.

*bgpd* supports Multiprotocol Extension for BGP. So if a remote peer supports
the protocol, *bgpd* can exchange IPv6 and/or multicast routing information.

Traditional BGP did not have the feature to detect a remote peer's
capabilities, e.g. whether it can handle prefix types other than IPv4 unicast
routes. This was a big problem using Multiprotocol Extension for BGP in an
operational network. :rfc:`2842` adopted a feature called Capability
Negotiation. *bgpd* use this Capability Negotiation to detect the remote peer's
capabilities. If a peer is only configured as an IPv4 unicast neighbor, *bgpd*
does not send these Capability Negotiation packets (at least not unless other
optional BGP features require capability negotiation).

By default, FRR will bring up peering with minimal common capability for the
both sides. For example, if the local router has unicast and multicast
capabilities and the remote router only has unicast capability the local router
will establish the connection with unicast only capability. When there are no
common capabilities, FRR sends Unsupported Capability error and then resets the
connection.

*************
Configuration
*************

.. _bgp-router-configuration:

BGP Router Configuration
========================

First of all you must configure BGP router with the :abbr:`ASN (Autonomous
System Number)`. The AS number is an identifier for the autonomous system.
The BGP protocol uses the AS number for detecting whether the BGP connection
is internal or external. VyOS does not have a special command to start the BGP
process. The BGP process starts when the first neighbor is configured.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp local-as <asn>

  Set local autonomous system number that this router represents. This is a
  a mandatory option!

Peers Configuration
-------------------

Defining Peers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> remote-as
   <nasn>

   This command creates a new neighbor whose remote-as is <nasn>. The neighbor
   address can be an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address or an interface to use
   for the connection. The command it applicable for peer and peer group.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> remote-as
   internal

   Create a peer as you would when you specify an ASN, except that if the
   peers ASN is different than mine as specified under the :cfgcmd:`protocols
   bgp <asn>` command the connection will be denied.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> remote-as
   external

   Create a peer as you would when you specify an ASN, except that if the
   peers ASN is the same as mine as specified under the :cfgcmd:`protocols
   bgp <asn>` command the connection will be denied.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> shutdown

   This command disable the peer or peer group. To reenable the peer use
   the delete form of this command.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> description
   <text>

   Set description of the peer or peer group.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> update-source
   <address|interface>

   Specify the IPv4 source address to use for the BGP session to this neighbor,
   may be specified as either an IPv4 address directly or as an interface name.

.. _bgp_capability_negotiation:

Capability Negotiation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> capability
   dynamic

   This command would allow the dynamic update of capabilities over an
   established BGP session.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> capability
   extended-nexthop

   Allow bgp to negotiate the extended-nexthop capability with it’s peer.
   If you are peering over a IPv6 Link-Local address then this capability
   is turned on automatically. If you are peering over a IPv6 Global Address
   then turning on this command will allow BGP to install IPv4 routes with
   IPv6 nexthops if you do not have IPv4 configured on interfaces.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface>
   disable-capability-negotiation

   Suppress sending Capability Negotiation as OPEN message optional
   parameter to the peer. This command only affects the peer is
   configured other than IPv4 unicast configuration.

   When remote peer does not have capability negotiation feature,
   remote peer will not send any capabilities at all. In that case,
   bgp configures the peer with configured capabilities.

   You may prefer locally configured capabilities more than the negotiated
   capabilities even though remote peer sends capabilities. If the peer is
   configured by :cfgcmd:`override-capability`, VyOS ignores received
   capabilities then override negotiated capabilities with configured values.

   Additionally you should keep in mind that this feature fundamentally
   disables the ability to use widely deployed BGP features. BGP unnumbered,
   hostname support, AS4, Addpath, Route Refresh, ORF, Dynamic Capabilities,
   and graceful restart.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface>
   override-capability

   This command allow override the result of Capability Negotiation with
   local configuration. Ignore remote peer’s capability value.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface>
   strict-capability-match

   This command forces strictly compare remote capabilities and local
   capabilities. If capabilities are different, send Unsupported Capability
   error then reset connection.

   You may want to disable sending Capability Negotiation OPEN message
   optional parameter to the peer when remote peer does not implement
   Capability Negotiation. Please use :cfgcmd:`disable-capability-negotiation`
   command to disable the feature.


Peer Parameters
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> allowas-in number <number>

   This command accept incoming routes with AS path containing AS
   number with the same value as the current system AS. This is
   used when you want to use the same AS number in your sites,
   but you can’t connect them directly.

   The number parameter (1-10) configures the amount of accepted
   occurences of the system AS number in AS path.

   This command is only allowed for eBGP peers. It is not applicable
   for peer groups.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> as-override

   This command override AS number of the originating router with
   the local AS number.

   Usually this configuration is used in PEs (Provider Edge) to
   replace the incoming customer AS number so the connected CE (
   Customer Edge) can use the same AS number as the other customer
   sites. This allows customers of the provider network to use the
   same AS number across their sites.

   This command is only allowed for eBGP peers.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> attribute-unchanged <as-path|med|next-hop>

   This command specifies attributes to be left unchanged for
   advertisements sent to a peer or peer group.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> maximum-prefix <number>

   This command specifies a maximum number of prefixes we can receive
   from a given peer. If this number is exceeded, the BGP session
   will be destroyed. The number range is 1 to 4294967295.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> nexthop-self

   This command forces the BGP speaker to report itself as the
   next hop for an advertised route it advertised to a neighbor.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> remove-private-as

   This command removes the private ASN of routes that are advertised
   to the configured peer. It removes only private ASNs on routes
   advertised to EBGP peers.

   If the AS-Path for the route has only private ASNs, the private
   ASNs are removed.

   If the AS-Path for the route has a private ASN between public
   ASNs, it is assumed that this is a design choice, and the
   private ASN is not removed.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> soft-reconfiguration inbound

   Changes in BGP policies require the BGP session to be cleared. Clearing has a
   large negative impact on network operations. Soft reconfiguration enables you
   to generate inbound updates from a neighbor, change and activate BGP policies
   without clearing the BGP session.

   This command specifies that route updates received from this neighbor will be
   stored unmodified, regardless of the inbound policy. When inbound soft
   reconfiguration is enabled, the stored updates are processed by the new
   policy configuration to create new inbound updates.

   .. note:: Storage of route updates uses memory. If you enable soft
      reconfiguration inbound for multiple neighbors, the amount of memory used
      can become significant.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> weight <number>

   This command specifies a default weight value for the neighbor’s
   routes. The number range is 1 to 65535.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface>
   advertisement-interval <seconds>

   This command specifies the minimum route advertisement interval for
   the peer. The interval value is 0 to 600 seconds, with the default
   advertisement interval being 0.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface>
   disable-connected-check

   This command allows peerings between directly connected eBGP peers
   using loopback addresses without adjusting the default TTL of 1.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface>
   disable-send-community <extended|standard>

   This command specifies that the community attribute should not be sent
   in route updates to a peer. By default community attribute is sent.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> ebgp-multihop
   <number>

   This command allows sessions to be established with eBGP neighbors
   when they are multiple hops away. When the neighbor is not directly
   connected and this knob is not enabled, the session will not establish.
   The number of hops range is 1 to 255. This command is mutually
   exclusive with :cfgcmd:`ttl-security hops`.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> local-as <asn>
   [no-prepend] [replace-as]

   Specify an alternate AS for this BGP process when interacting with
   the specified peer or peer group. With no modifiers, the specified
   local-as is prepended to the received AS_PATH when receiving routing
   updates from the peer, and prepended to the outgoing AS_PATH (after
   the process local AS) when transmitting local routes to the peer.

   If the :cfgcmd:`no-prepend` attribute is specified, then the supplied
   local-as is not prepended to the received AS_PATH.

   If the :cfgcmd:`replace-as` attribute is specified, then only the supplied
   local-as is prepended to the AS_PATH when transmitting local-route
   updates to this peer.

   .. note:: This command is only allowed for eBGP peers.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> passive

   Configures the BGP speaker so that it only accepts inbound connections
   from, but does not initiate outbound connections to the peer or peer group.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> password
   <text>

   This command specifies a MD5 password to be used with the tcp socket that
   is being used to connect to the remote peer.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> ttl-security
   hops <number>

   This command enforces Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM),
   as specified in :rfc:`5082`. With this command, only neighbors
   that are the specified number of hops away will be allowed to
   become neighbors. The number of hops range is 1 to 254. This
   command is mutually exclusive with :cfgcmd:`ebgp-multihop`.


Peer Groups
^^^^^^^^^^^

Peer groups are used to help improve scaling by generating the same update
information to all members of a peer group. Note that this means that the
routes generated by a member of a peer group will be sent back to that
originating peer with the originator identifier attribute set to indicated
the originating peer. All peers not associated with a specific peer group
are treated as belonging to a default peer group, and will share updates.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp peer-group <name>

   This command defines a new peer group. You can specify to the group the same
   parameters that you can specify for specific neighbors.

   .. note:: If you apply a parameter to an individual neighbor IP address, you
      override the action defined for a peer group that includes that IP
      address.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> peer-group
   <name>

   This command bind specific peer to peer group with a given name.


Network Advertisement Configuration
-----------------------------------

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   network <prefix>

   This command is used for advertising IPv4 or IPv6 networks.

   .. note:: By default, the BGP prefix is advertised even if it's not present
      in the routing table. This behaviour differs from the implementation of
      some vendors.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters network-import-check

   This configuration modifies the behavior of the network statement. If you
   have this configured the underlying network must exist in the routing table.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> default-originate [route-map <name>]

   By default, VyOS does not advertise a default route (0.0.0.0/0) even if it is
   in routing table. When you want to announce default routes to the peer, use
   this command. Using optional argument :cfgcmd:`route-map` you can inject the
   default route to given neighbor only if the conditions in the route map are
   met.


Route Aggregation Configuration
-------------------------------

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   aggregate-address <prefix>

   This command specifies an aggregate address. The router will also
   announce longer-prefixes inside of the aggregate address.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   aggregate-address <prefix> as-set

   This command specifies an aggregate address with a mathematical set of
   autonomous systems. This command summarizes the AS_PATH attributes of
   all the individual routes.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   aggregate-address <prefix> summary-only

   This command specifies an aggregate address and provides that
   longer-prefixes inside of the aggregate address are suppressed
   before sending BGP updates out to peers.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> unsuppress-map <name>

   This command applies route-map to selectively unsuppress prefixes
   suppressed by summarisation.


Redistribution Configuration
----------------------------

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   redistribute <route source>

   This command redistributes routing information from the given route source
   to the BGP process. There are six modes available for route source:
   connected, kernel, ospf, rip, static, table.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   redistribute <route source> metric <number>

   This command specifies metric (MED) for redistributed routes. The
   metric range is 0 to 4294967295. There are six modes available for
   route source: connected, kernel, ospf, rip, static, table.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast>
   redistribute <route source> route-map <name>

   This command allows to use route map to filter redistributed routes.
   There are six modes available for route source: connected, kernel,
   ospf, rip, static, table.


General Configuration
---------------------

Common parameters
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters router-id <id>

   This command specifies the router-ID. If router ID is not specified it will
   use the highest interface IP address.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp maximum-paths <ebgp|ibgp> <number>

   This command defines the maximum number of parallel routes that
   the BGP can support. In order for BGP to use the second path, the
   following attributes have to match: Weight, Local Preference, AS
   Path (both AS number and AS path length), Origin code, MED, IGP
   metric. Also, the next hop address for each path must be different.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters default no-ipv4-unicast

   This command allows the user to specify that IPv4 peering is turned off by
   default.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters log-neighbor-changes

   This command enable logging neighbor up/down changes and reset reason.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters no-client-to-client-reflection

   This command disables route reflection between route reflector clients.
   By default, the clients of a route reflector are not required to be
   fully meshed and the routes from a client are reflected to other clients.
   However, if the clients are fully meshed, route reflection is not required.
   In this case, use the :cfgcmd:`no-client-to-client-reflection` command
   to disable client-to-client reflection.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters no-fast-external-failover

   Disable immediate session reset if peer's connected link goes down.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp listen range <prefix> peer-group <name>

   This command is useful if one desires to loosen the requirement for BGP
   to have strictly defined neighbors. Specifically what is allowed is for
   the local router to listen to a range of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses defined
   by a prefix and to accept BGP open messages. When a TCP connection
   (and subsequently a BGP open message) from within this range tries to
   connect the local router then the local router will respond and connect
   with the parameters that are defined within the peer group. One must define
   a peer-group for each range that is listed. If no peer-group is defined
   then an error will keep you from committing the configuration.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp listen limit <number>

   This command goes hand in hand with the listen range command to limit the
   amount of BGP neighbors that are allowed to connect to the local router.
   The limit range is 1 to 5000.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters ebgp-requires-policy

   This command changes the eBGP behavior of FRR. By default FRR enables
   :rfc:`8212` functionality which affects how eBGP routes are advertised,
   namely no routes are advertised across eBGP sessions without some
   sort of egress route-map/policy in place. In VyOS however we have this
   RFC functionality disabled by default so that we can preserve backwards
   compatibility with older versions of VyOS. With this option one can
   enable :rfc:`8212` functionality to operate.

Administrative Distance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters distance global
   <external|internal|local> <distance>

   This command change distance value of BGP. The arguments are the distance
   values for external routes, internal routes and local routes respectively.
   The distance range is 1 to 255.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters distance prefix <subnet>
   distance <distance>

   This command sets the administrative distance for a particular route. The
   distance range is 1 to 255.

   .. note:: Routes with a distance of 255 are effectively disabled and not
      installed into the kernel.


Timers
^^^^^^

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp timers holdtime <seconds>

   This command specifies hold-time in seconds. The timer range is
   4 to 65535. The default value is 180 second. If you set value to 0
   VyOS will not hold routes.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp timers keepalive <seconds>

   This command specifies keep-alive time in seconds. The timer
   can range from 4 to 65535. The default value is 60 second.


Route Dampening
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When a route fails, a routing update is sent to withdraw the route from the
network's routing tables. When the route is re-enabled, the change in
availability is also advertised. A route that continually fails and returns
requires a great deal of network traffic to update the network about the
route's status.

Route dampening wich described in :rfc:`2439` enables you to identify routes
that repeatedly fail and return. If route dampening is enabled, an unstable
route accumulates penalties each time the route fails and returns. If the
accumulated penalties exceed a threshold, the route is no longer advertised.
This is route suppression. Routes that have been suppressed are re-entered
into the routing table only when the amount of their penalty falls below a
threshold.

A penalty of 1000 is assessed each time the route fails. When the penalties
reach a predefined threshold (suppress-value), the router stops advertising
the route.

Once a route is assessed a penalty, the penalty is decreased by half each time
a predefined amount of time elapses (half-life-time). When the accumulated
penalties fall below a predefined threshold (reuse-value), the route is
unsuppressed and added back into the BGP routing table.

No route is suppressed indefinitely. Maximum-suppress-time defines the maximum
time a route can be suppressed before it is re-advertised.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters dampening
   half-life <minutes>

   This command defines the amount of time in minutes after
   which a penalty is reduced by half. The timer range is
   10 to 45 minutes.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters dampening
   re-use <seconds>

   This command defines the accumulated penalty amount at which the
   route is re-advertised. The penalty range is 1 to 20000.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters dampening
   start-suppress-time <seconds>

   This command defines the accumulated penalty amount at which the
   route is suppressed. The penalty range is 1 to 20000.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters dampening
   max-suppress-time <seconds>

   This command defines the maximum time in minutes that a route is
   suppressed. The timer range is 1 to 255 minutes.


Route Selection Configuration
-----------------------------

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters always-compare-med

   This command provides to compare the MED on routes, even when they were
   received from different neighbouring ASes. Setting this option makes the
   order of preference of routes more defined, and should eliminate MED
   induced oscillations.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters bestpath as-path confed

   This command specifies that the length of confederation path sets and
   sequences should be taken into account during the BGP best path
   decision process.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters bestpath as-path multipath-relax

   This command specifies that BGP decision process should consider paths
   of equal AS_PATH length candidates for multipath computation. Without
   the knob, the entire AS_PATH must match for multipath computation.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters bestpath as-path ignore

   Ignore AS_PATH length when selecting a route

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters bestpath compare-routerid

   Ensure that when comparing routes where both are equal on most metrics,
   including local-pref, AS_PATH length, IGP cost, MED, that the tie is
   broken based on router-ID.

   If this option is enabled, then the already-selected check, where
   already selected eBGP routes are preferred, is skipped.

   If a route has an ORIGINATOR_ID attribute because it has been reflected,
   that ORIGINATOR_ID will be used. Otherwise, the router-ID of the peer
   the route was received from will be used.

   The advantage of this is that the route-selection (at this point) will
   be more deterministic. The disadvantage is that a few or even one lowest-ID
   router may attract all traffic to otherwise-equal paths because of this
   check. It may increase the possibility of MED or IGP oscillation, unless
   other measures were taken to avoid these. The exact behaviour will be
   sensitive to the iBGP and reflection topology.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters bestpath med confed

   This command specifies that BGP considers the MED when comparing routes
   originated from different sub-ASs within the confederation to which this
   BGP speaker belongs. The default state, where the MED attribute is not
   considered.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters bestpath med missing-as-worst

   This command specifies that a route with a MED is always considered to be
   better than a route without a MED by causing the missing MED attribute to
   have a value of infinity. The default state, where the missing MED
   attribute is considered to have a value of zero.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters default local-pref
   <local-pref value>

   This command specifies the default local preference value. The local
   preference range is 0 to 4294967295.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters deterministic-med

   This command provides to compare different MED values that advertised by
   neighbours in the same AS for routes selection. When this command is
   enabled, routes from the same autonomous system are grouped together, and
   the best entries of each group are compared.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp address-family ipv4-unicast network
   <prefix> backdoor

   This command allows the router to prefer route to specified prefix learned
   via IGP through backdoor link instead of a route to the same prefix learned
   via EBGP.


Route Filtering Configuration
-----------------------------

In order to control and modify routing information that is exchanged between
peers you can use route-map, filter-list, prefix-list, distribute-list.

For inbound updates the order of preference is:

  - route-map
  - filter-list
  - prefix-list, distribute-list

For outbound updates the order of preference is:

  - prefix-list, distribute-list
  - filter-list
  - route-map

  .. note:: The attributes :cfgcmd:`prefix-list` and :cfgcmd:`distribute-list`
     are mutually exclusive, and only one command (distribute-list or
     prefix-list) can be applied to each inbound or outbound direction for a
     particular neighbor.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> distribute-list <export|import> <number>

   This command applys the access list filters named in <number> to the
   specified BGP neighbor to restrict the routing information that BGP learns
   and/or advertises. The arguments :cfgcmd:`export` and :cfgcmd:`import`
   specify the direction in which the access list are applied.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> prefix-list <export|import> <name>

   This command applys the prfefix list filters named in <name> to the
   specified BGP neighbor to restrict the routing information that BGP learns
   and/or advertises. The arguments :cfgcmd:`export` and :cfgcmd:`import`
   specify the direction in which the prefix list are applied.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> route-map <export|import> <name>

   This command applys the route map named in <name> to the specified BGP
   neighbor to control and modify routing information that is exchanged
   between peers. The arguments :cfgcmd:`export` and :cfgcmd:`import`
   specify the direction in which the route map are applied.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> filter-list <export|import> <name>

   This command applys the AS path access list filters named in <name> to the
   specified BGP neighbor to restrict the routing information that BGP learns
   and/or advertises. The arguments :cfgcmd:`export` and :cfgcmd:`import`
   specify the direction in which the AS path access list are applied.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address|interface> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> capability orf <receive|send>

   This command enables the ORF capability (described in :rfc:`5291`) on the
   local router, and enables ORF capability advertisement to the specified BGP
   peer. The :cfgcmd:`receive` keyword configures a router to advertise ORF
   receive capabilities. The :cfgcmd:`send` keyword configures a router to
   advertise ORF send capabilities. To advertise a filter from a sender, you
   must create an IP prefix list for the specified BGP peer applied in inbound
   derection.


BGP Scaling Configuration
-------------------------

BGP routers connected inside the same AS through BGP belong to an internal BGP
session, or IBGP. In order to prevent routing table loops, IBGP speaker does
not advertise IBGP-learned routes to other IBGP speaker (Split Horizon
mechanism). As such, IBGP requires a full mesh of all peers. For large
networks, this quickly becomes unscalable.

There are two ways that help us to mitigate the BGPs full-mesh requirement in
a network:

   - Using BGP route-reflectors
   - Using BGP confederation


Route Reflector Configuration
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Introducing route reflectors removes the need for the full-mesh. When you
configure a route reflector you have to tell the router whether the other IBGP
router is a client or non-client. A client is an IBGP router that the route
reflector will “reflect” routes to, the non-client is just a regular IBGP
neighbor. Route reflectors mechanism is described in :rfc:`4456` and updated
by :rfc:`7606`.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp neighbor <address> address-family
   <ipv4-unicast|ipv6-unicast> route-reflector-client

   This command specifies the given neighbor as route reflector client.

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters cluster-id <id>

   This command specifies cluster ID which identifies a collection of route
   reflectors and their clients, and is used by route reflectors to avoid
   looping. By default cluster ID is set to the BGP router id value, but can be
   set to an arbitrary 32-bit value.


Confederation Configuration
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

A BGP confederation divides our AS into sub-ASes to reduce the number of
required IBGP peerings. Within a sub-AS we still require full-mesh IBGP but
between these sub-ASes we use something that looks like EBGP but behaves like
IBGP (called confederation BGP). Confederation mechanism is described in
:rfc:`5065`

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters confederation identifier
   <asn>

   This command specifies a BGP confederation identifier. <asn> is the number
   of the autonomous system that internally includes multiple sub-autonomous
   systems (a confederation).

.. cfgcmd:: set protocols bgp parameters confederation confederation
   peers <nsubasn>

   This command sets other confederations <nsubasn> as members of autonomous
   system specified by :cfgcmd:`confederation identifier <asn>`.


*************************
Operational Mode Commands
*************************

Show
====

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp

   This command displays all entries in BGP routing table.

.. code-block:: none

   BGP table version is 10, local router ID is 10.0.35.3, vrf id 0
   Default local pref 100, local AS 65000
   Status codes:  s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, = multipath,
                  i internal, r RIB-failure, S Stale, R Removed
   Nexthop codes: @NNN nexthop's vrf id, < announce-nh-self
   Origin codes:  i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

      Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
   *> 198.51.100.0/24  10.0.34.4                0             0 65004 i
   *> 203.0.113.0/24   10.0.35.5                0             0 65005 i

   Displayed  2 routes and 2 total paths

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp <address|prefix>

   This command displays information about the particular entry in the BGP
   routing table.

.. code-block:: none

   BGP routing table entry for 198.51.100.0/24
   Paths: (1 available, best #1, table default)
     Advertised to non peer-group peers:
     10.0.13.1 10.0.23.2 10.0.34.4 10.0.35.5
     65004
       10.0.34.4 from 10.0.34.4 (10.0.34.4)
         Origin IGP, metric 0, valid, external, best (First path received)
         Last update: Wed Jan  6 12:18:53 2021

.. opcmd:: show ip bgp cidr-only

   This command displays routes with classless interdomain routing (CIDR).

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp community <value>

   This command displays routes that belong to specified BGP communities.
   Valid value is a community number in the range from 1 to 4294967200,
   or AA:NN (autonomous system-community number/2-byte number), no-export,
   local-as, or no-advertise.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp community-list <name>

   This command displays routes that are permitted by the BGP
   community list.

.. opcmd:: show ip bgp dampened-paths

   This command displays BGP dampened routes.

.. opcmd:: show ip bgp flap-statistics

   This command displays information about flapping BGP routes.

.. opcmd:: show ip bgp filter-list <name>

   This command displays BGP routes allowed by by the specified AS Path
   access list.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp neighbors <address> advertised-routes

   This command displays BGP routes advertised to a neighbor.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp neighbors <address> received-routes

   This command displays BGP routes originating from the specified BGP
   neighbor before inbound policy is applied. To use this command inbound
   soft reconfiguration must be enabled.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp neighbors <address> routes

   This command displays BGP received-routes that are accepted after filtering.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp neighbors <address> dampened-routes

   This command displays dampened routes received from BGP neighbor.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp regexp <text>

   This command displays information about BGP routes whose AS path
   matches the specified regular expression.

.. opcmd:: show <ip|ipv6> bgp summary

   This command displays the status of all BGP connections.

.. code-block:: none

   IPv4 Unicast Summary:
   BGP router identifier 10.0.35.3, local AS number 65000 vrf-id 0
   BGP table version 11
   RIB entries 5, using 920 bytes of memory
   Peers 4, using 82 KiB of memory

   Neighbor        V         AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ  Up/Down State/PfxRcd
   10.0.13.1       4      65000     148     159        0    0    0 02:16:01            0
   10.0.23.2       4      65000     136     143        0    0    0 02:13:21            0
   10.0.34.4       4      65004     161     163        0    0    0 02:16:01            1
   10.0.35.5       4      65005     162     166        0    0    0 02:16:01            1

   Total number of neighbors 4

Reset
=====

.. opcmd:: reset <ip|ipv6> bgp <address> [soft [in|out]]

   This command resets BGP connections to the specified neighbor IP address.
   With argument :cfgcmd:`soft` this command initiates a soft reset. If
   you do not specify the :cfgcmd:`in` or :cfgcmd:`out` options, both
   inbound and outbound soft reconfiguration are triggered.

.. opcmd:: reset ip bgp all

   This command resets all BGP connections of given router.

.. opcmd:: reset ip bgp dampening

   This command uses to clear BGP route dampening information and to
   unsuppress suppressed routes.

.. opcmd:: reset ip bgp external

   This command resets all external BGP peers of given router.

.. opcmd:: reset ip bgp peer-group <name> [soft [in|out]]

   This command resets BGP connections to the specified peer group.
   With argument :cfgcmd:`soft` this command initiates a soft reset. If
   you do not specify the :cfgcmd:`in` or :cfgcmd:`out` options, both
   inbound and outbound soft reconfiguration are triggered.


********
Examples
********

IPv4 peering
============

A simple eBGP configuration:

**Node 1:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols bgp local-as 65534
  set protocols bgp neighbor 192.168.0.2 ebgp-multihop '2'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 192.168.0.2 remote-as '65535'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 192.168.0.2 update-source '192.168.0.1'
  set protocols bgp address-family ipv4-unicast network '172.16.0.0/16'
  set protocols bgp parameters router-id '192.168.0.1'

**Node 2:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols bgp local-as 65535
  set protocols bgp neighbor 192.168.0.1 ebgp-multihop '2'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 192.168.0.1 remote-as '65534'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 192.168.0.1 update-source '192.168.0.2'
  set protocols bgp address-family ipv4-unicast network '172.17.0.0/16'
  set protocols bgp parameters router-id '192.168.0.2'


Don't forget, the CIDR declared in the network statement MUST **exist in your
routing table (dynamic or static), the best way to make sure that is true is
creating a static route:**

**Node 1:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols static route 172.16.0.0/16 blackhole distance '254'

**Node 2:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols static route 172.17.0.0/16 blackhole distance '254'


IPv6 peering
============

A simple BGP configuration via IPv6.

**Node 1:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols bgp local-as 65534
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 ebgp-multihop '2'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 remote-as '65535'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 update-source '2001:db8::1'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 address-family ipv6-unicast
  set protocols bgp address-family ipv6-unicast network '2001:db8:1::/48'
  set protocols bgp parameters router-id '10.1.1.1'

**Node 2:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols bgp local-as 65535
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 ebgp-multihop '2'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 remote-as '65534'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 update-source '2001:db8::2'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 address-family ipv6-unicast
  set protocols bgp address-family ipv6-unicast network '2001:db8:2::/48'
  set protocols bgp parameters router-id '10.1.1.2'

Don't forget, the CIDR declared in the network statement **MUST exist in your
routing table (dynamic or static), the best way to make sure that is true is
creating a static route:**

**Node 1:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols static route6 2001:db8:1::/48 blackhole distance '254'

**Node 2:**

.. code-block:: none

  set protocols static route6 2001:db8:2::/48 blackhole distance '254'

Route Filtering
===============

Route filter can be applied using a route-map:

**Node1:**

.. code-block:: none

  set policy prefix-list AS65535-IN rule 10 action 'permit'
  set policy prefix-list AS65535-IN rule 10 prefix '172.16.0.0/16'
  set policy prefix-list AS65535-OUT rule 10 action 'deny'
  set policy prefix-list AS65535-OUT rule 10 prefix '172.16.0.0/16'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65535-IN rule 10 action 'permit'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65535-IN rule 10 prefix '2001:db8:2::/48'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65535-OUT rule 10 action 'deny'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65535-OUT rule 10 prefix '2001:db8:2::/48'

  set policy route-map AS65535-IN rule 10 action 'permit'
  set policy route-map AS65535-IN rule 10 match ip address prefix-list 'AS65535-IN'
  set policy route-map AS65535-IN rule 10 match ipv6 address prefix-list 'AS65535-IN'
  set policy route-map AS65535-IN rule 20 action 'deny'
  set policy route-map AS65535-OUT rule 10 action 'deny'
  set policy route-map AS65535-OUT rule 10 match ip address prefix-list 'AS65535-OUT'
  set policy route-map AS65535-OUT rule 10 match ipv6 address prefix-list 'AS65535-OUT'
  set policy route-map AS65535-OUT rule 20 action 'permit'

  set protocols bgp local-as 65534
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 address-family ipv4-unicast route-map export 'AS65535-OUT'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 address-family ipv4-unicast route-map import 'AS65535-IN'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 address-family ipv6-unicast route-map export 'AS65535-OUT'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::2 address-family ipv6-unicast route-map import 'AS65535-IN'

**Node2:**

.. code-block:: none

  set policy prefix-list AS65534-IN rule 10 action 'permit'
  set policy prefix-list AS65534-IN rule 10 prefix '172.17.0.0/16'
  set policy prefix-list AS65534-OUT rule 10 action 'deny'
  set policy prefix-list AS65534-OUT rule 10 prefix '172.17.0.0/16'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65534-IN rule 10 action 'permit'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65534-IN rule 10 prefix '2001:db8:1::/48'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65534-OUT rule 10 action 'deny'
  set policy prefix-list6 AS65534-OUT rule 10 prefix '2001:db8:1::/48'

  set policy route-map AS65534-IN rule 10 action 'permit'
  set policy route-map AS65534-IN rule 10 match ip address prefix-list 'AS65534-IN'
  set policy route-map AS65534-IN rule 10 match ipv6 address prefix-list 'AS65534-IN'
  set policy route-map AS65534-IN rule 20 action 'deny'
  set policy route-map AS65534-OUT rule 10 action 'deny'
  set policy route-map AS65534-OUT rule 10 match ip address prefix-list 'AS65534-OUT'
  set policy route-map AS65534-OUT rule 10 match ipv6 address prefix-list 'AS65534-OUT'
  set policy route-map AS65534-OUT rule 20 action 'permit'

  set protocols bgp local-as 65535
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 address-family ipv4-unicast route-map export 'AS65534-OUT'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 address-family ipv4-unicast route-map import 'AS65534-IN'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 address-family ipv6-unicast route-map export 'AS65534-OUT'
  set protocols bgp neighbor 2001:db8::1 address-family ipv6-unicast route-map import 'AS65534-IN'

We could expand on this and also deny link local and multicast in the rule 20
action deny.