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| author | Ondrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2017-02-23 16:32:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Ondrej Zajicek (work) <santiago@crfreenet.org> | 2017-02-23 16:32:07 +0100 |
| commit | 1950a479c020d1972b6007d8ea0f66e3d4f8564a (patch) | |
| tree | 6f023363fb7536eb912e4b373039e8c283626a8b /doc | |
| parent | 4e379bde60172823452cf96e9c0b6b1737c490f0 (diff) | |
BGP: Allow exchanging LOCAL_PREF with eBGP peers
Adds option 'allow bgp_local_pref' to override the usual restriction of
LOCAL_PREF on eBGP sessions.
Thanks to Lennert Buytenhek for the patch.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bird.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index 11fe2190..dd4472ae 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -2043,6 +2043,14 @@ using the following configuration parameters: TX direction. When active, all available routes accepted by the export filter are advertised to the neighbor. Default: off. + <tag><label id="bgp-allow-local-pref">allow bgp_local_pref <m/switch/</tag> + A standard BGP implementation do not send the Local Preference attribute + to eBGP neighbors and ignore this attribute if received from eBGP + neighbors, as per <rfc id="4271">. When this option is enabled on an + eBGP session, this attribute will be sent to and accepted from the peer, + which is useful for example if you have a setup like in <rfc id="7938">. + The option does not affect iBGP sessions. Default: off. + <tag><label id="bgp-allow-local-as">allow local as [<m/number/]</tag> BGP prevents routing loops by rejecting received routes with the local AS number in the AS path. This option allows to loose or disable the |