ODA210005 BGP Routing Protocol Upon completion of this course, you
will be able to:
Understand the principle of BGP
Understand the features of Attributes
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Overview Of BGP
BGP is an exterior routing protocol, used to transmit routing
information between ASs
It is a kind of distance-vector(path-vector) routing protocol and
avoids the occurrence of loop in design. It provides additional
attribute information for the route
Transfer protocol: TCP; port No.: 179
It supports Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
Route updating: transmit incremental routes only
Abundant route filtering and routing policies
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a dynamic routing protocol. Its
basic function is to automatically exchange the loopless routing
information between Autonomous Systems (AS). By exchanging the
path-reachable information with AS sequence attribute, it can
construct the topology map of the autonomous area, thus removing
the route loop and implementing the routing strategy configured by
the user. Compared with protocols like OSPF and RIP, which run
inside the autonomous area, BGP is a kind of Exterior Gateway
Protocol (EGP) while OSPF and RIP are Interior Gateway Protocol
(IGP). BGP is usually used between ISPs.
BGP has been put into use since 1989. Its three earliest versions
are RFC1105 (BGP-1), RFC1163 (BGP-2) and RFC1267 (BGP-3)
respectively. The current version is RFC1771 (BGP- 4). With the
fast development of the Internet, the volume of the routing table
expands quickly as well, and the amount of routing information
exchanged between ASs is also ever increasing, which affects the
network performance. BGP supports Classless Inter-Domain Routing
(CIDR), which can effectively reduce the ever-expanding routing
table. BGP-4 is fast turning into the actual standard of the
Internet border routing protocol. Its features are described as
follows:
BGP is a kind of exterior routing protocol, different from interior
routing protocol like OSPF and RIP. It focuses on the control of
route advertising and the selection of optimal routes, instead of
route discovery and calculation.
By taking the AS path information, it can thoroughly solve the
problem of route cycle.
To control the advertising and selection of routes, it provides
additional route attribute information.
It uses TCP as its transfer layer protocol, thus improving the
reliability of protocols.
BGP-4 supports Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR, called
supernet sometimes), which is an important improvement on BGP-3.
CIDR treats the IP address with a totally new method and does not
differentiate Class-A network, Class-B network or Class-C network
any longer. For example, an illegal Class-C network address
192.213.0.0 (255.255.0.0) will become a legal super network when
expressed by the CIDR method as 192.213.0.0/16. Here, "/16" means
that the subnet mask consists of bite 16 counted from the left end
of the address. The introduction of CIDR simplifies the Routes
Aggregation (RA). In fact, RA is a procedure of combining several
different routes, which turns the approach of advertising several
routes into that of advertising a single route and thus simplifies
the routing table.
During route updating, BGP sends the incremental routes only. In
this way, the bandwidth occupied by BGP's route advertising is
greatly reduced. So, it is suitable for advertising a large amount
of routing information over the Internet.
Due to political and economical reasons, each autonomous system
hopes to filter, select and control the routes. Therefore, BGP-4
offers abundant routing strategies, which makes BGP easy to expand
so as to support the development of the Internet.
Compared with IGP protocols like OSPF and RIP, the topology map of
IGP is more abstract and rough, because what IGP constructs is the
topology map of the router inside AS. IGP abstracts the router as
several endpoints and the links between routers as the sides.
According to the parameter like the link state and certain
measurement criteria, each side is assigned with certain metric to
form the topology map. According to this topology map, it selects
the route with the minimum cost (sum of metric of the sides passing
the two points). Here, we suppose that it costs nothing for the
router (endpoint) to forward a data message. However, in BGP, the
endpoint of the topology map is an AS area and a side is a link
between ASs. In this case, we cannot suppose that it costs nothing
for the data message to pass an endpoint (AS autonomous area). The
cost shall be calculated by IGP. This shows that there is a
hierarchical relationship between EGP and IGP. That is, IGP selects
the route with the minimum cost inside the AS while EGP selects the
route with the minimum cost between ASs.
BGP, as one of EGP, takes into account the factors like link cost
between Ass and cost in the AS area (configured by the BGP router)
when selecting a route.
As mentioned above, IGP needs to redistribute the routes of other
points in the network topology map inside the AS autonomous area.
Meanwhile, it sends the routes known by this endpoint (router) like
the direct route and static route to other endpoints. As an
exterior gateway protocol, the unit adopted by BGP for sending and
redistributing routes is the whole AS autonomous area. That is, BGP
needs to send all the routes inside the AS where the local router
is located, and redistribute all the routes of other AS autonomous
areas (supposing no routing strategy is used to control the sending
and redistribution). Obviously, the number of routes is far greater
than that of routes sent and redistributed by IGP. So, it is not
advisable to broadcast the routing information outward like IGP. By
sending route incremental, BGP implements the advertising and
maintenance of all the routing information: during the
initialization, it sends all the routes to the BGP Peer, and at the
same time saves the routing information already sent to the BGP
Peer in the local host. When the local BGP receives a new route
(for example, a new route is redistributed or a new static route is
added via IGP), it will compare this new route with the saved
information. If it has not been sent before, BGP will send it.
Otherwise, it will be compared with the route already sent. If the
new route costs less, then it will be sent. Meanwhile, the
information already sent will be updated; otherwise, it will not be
sent. When the local BGP finds that one route fails (e.g. the
corresponding port fails) and this route was once sent, it will
send a route withdrawal message to the BGP Peer.
In sum, BGP does not necessarily broadcast all the routing
information each time. It only sends the variation value
(incremental) of the route after initializing all the routing
information. In this way, the minimum communication volume between
BGP and the peer is ensured. However, it also makes the BGP more
complicated. The reason is that, for IGP, the local routing
protocol only needs to send all the routes known at the moment of
sending instead of saving any of the information already sent, and
the work of selecting routes is done by the peer, whereas the BGP
must save the sent routing information for each BGP Peer, so as to
confirm whether a route should be really sent before sending a new
route.
To reduce the size of the routing table and the communication
volume of sending a route, BGP also supports CIDR (Classless
Inter-Domain Routing). It uses the route with a shorter subnet mask
(compared with the natural mask) to express more routing
information in a single route. For example, the range from
202.112.1.0/24 to 202.112.254.0/24 can be expressed by
202.112.0.0/16, thus reducing the size of the routing table and the
network traffic volume in the case of routing information
transmission.
Meanwhile, as the routing protocol between AS autonomous areas, BGP
needs to control the sending and redistribution of routes according
to the attributes of different routes due to political and economic
factors. So, BGP has abundant routing strategy control means.
Quiz
which of the following are distance vector routing protocol?
(choose all that apply)
A: OSPF
B: IS-IS
C: RIP
D: BGP
Which port number does BGP use to setup the TCP connection ?
A: 89
B: 443
C: 179
D: 23
Which one of the following statements about BGP is FALSE?
A. BGP uses TCP port 179.
B. BGP ensures reliability of updates by using the reliable
transport services of TCP.
C. BGP speaker will send the update to its peers periods.
unless there is a matching prefix exists in the IP route
table.
D. A TCP connection is required before exchanging updates.
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which routing protocol running inside the AS
Which routing protocol running between ASs
The Autonomous System (AS) refers to a set of routers, which are
managed by the same technical management organization and adopt the
unified routing strategy. Each AS has a unique AS number, which is
allocated by the management organization authorized by the
Internet.
IGP routing protocol such as static route, OSPF , IS-IS etc
BGP only
The Autonomous System (AS) refers to a set of routers, which are
managed by the same technical management organization and adopt the
unified routing strategy. Each AS has a unique AS number, which is
allocated by the management organization authorized by the
Internet.
The basic concept of introducing the AS is to differentiate
different ASs by different numbers. Thus, when the network
administrator does not want his own communication data to pass some
AS, this numbering method becomes very useful. Maybe the
administrator's network can access this AS absolutely. However, if
this AS is managed by his component or lacks enough security
mechanism, he needs to avoid this AS. By adopting the routing
protocol and AS number, the routers can specify the path between
them and the method for routing information exchange.
The AS numbers range from 1 to 65535. Among them, the numbers from
1 to 64511 are the registered Internet number, and those from 64512
to 65535 are the private network numbers.
Quiz
How many AS number available to the public internet network?
A: 1~64511
B: 1~65525
C: 64512~65535
D: 0~65535
Working Mechanism Of BGP
As the application layer protocol, the BGP system runs on a special
router. During the first startup of the system, the routing
information is exchanged by sending the whole BGP routing table.
Later, for the objectives of updating the routing table, only the
update message is exchanged. During the operation, the system
checks whether the connection is normal by receiving and sending
the keep-alive message.
The router, which sends the BGP message, is called the BGP speaker.
It continuously receives and generates new routing information, and
advertises it to other BGP speakers. When a BGP speaker receives
new route advertisement from other ASs, it will advertise this
route to all the other BGP speakers inside the AS if this route is
better than the currently known route, or currently there is no
acceptable route. A BGP speaker calls other BGP speakers that
exchange message with it as peer. Several related peers can
construct a group.
Generally, a route is generated inside the AS. It is discovered and
calculated by some interior routing protocol and transmitted to the
boundary of the AS. Then, The Autonomous System Boundary Router
(ASBR) spreads it to other ASs via the EBGP connection. During the
spreading, the route may pass several ASs, which are called the
transitional AS, such as AS5. If this AS has multiple boundary
routers, Information will be exchanged among these routers by
running IBGP. In this case, the internal routers need not know
these exterior routes. They only need to maintain the IP
connectivity among the boundary routers, such as AS2, AS3 and AS4.
After the route reaches the AS boundary, ASBR can redistribute the
route into the interior routing protocol if the interior router
needs to know these exterior routes. The exterior routes have a
large amount, which will usually exceed the processing capability
of the interior routers. So, filtering or aggregation shall be done
when redistributing the exterior route, so as to reduce the number
of routes. An extreme situation is to use the default route. There
is still another AS called Stub AS, such as AS1, AS6 and AS7.
Inside such an AS, there is only one ASBR connected to the outside
via EBGP, and the communication with other external ASs needs to be
connected by the transitional AS.
For a specific ASBR, its routes are obtained in two ways:
distributed in from the Peer or redistributed from IGP. For the
routes distributed in, filtering will be done according their
attributes (e.g. AS path, group attribute) and some attributes
(e.g. local precedence, MED value) will be set. Later, specific
routes can be aggregated as super network routes if necessary. BGP
may distribute in routes that have the same destination from
multiple peers and then select the best route according to the
rules to add it to the IP routing table. For IGP route, filtering
and setting shall be done by the redistribution strategy. BGP sends
the preferred BGP route and redistributed IGP route to the
peer.
AS1
AS7
AS6
AS5
AS4
AS3
AS2
EBGP
RTB
RTC
IBGP
RTA
RTD
RTE
EBGP
AS100
AS200
AS300
On the router, BGP runs in the following two modes: IBGP (Internal
BGP), EBGP (External BGP)
If two peers that exchange BGP messages belong to the same AS, they
are Internal BGP (IBGP), such as RTB and RTD.
If two peers that exchange BGP messages do not belong to the same
AS, they are External BGP (EBGP), such as RTA and RTB.
Although BGP runs between ASs, it is also necessary to establish
BGP connection between different border routers of an AS. Only in
this way, can routing information be transmitted in the entire
network, such as RTB and RTD. To establish the communication
between AS100 and AS300, we need to establish IBGP connection
between them.
The direct connection is not necessarily established between IBGP
peers physically, but the full logical connection between them must
be ensured (it suffices if TCP connection can be created).
In most of the cases, there is physically direct link between EBGP
peers. However, if it is hard to realize, remedy can be done by
configuring the command "neighbor neighbor-address
ebgp-multihop[ttl]". Here, "ttl" is the maximum hop count. Its
default value is 64 and the value range is 1-255.
Quiz
Which of the following statements about IBGP routers are true?
(Select one.)
A. They must be fully meshed.
B. They can be in a different AS.
C. They must be directly connected.
D. They do not need to be directly connected.
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Route Advertising Principles of BGP
BGP Speaker only selects the best one for its own use
BGP Speaker only advertises the routes used by itself to its
neighbors
For the routes obtained from EBGP, the BGP Speaker will advertise
them to all its neighbors (including EBGP and IBGP)
For the routes obtained from IBGP, the BGP Speaker will not
advertise them to its IBGP neighbors
For the routes obtained from IBGP, whether the BGP Speaker will
advertise them to its EBGP neighbors depends on the synchronization
state of IGP and BGP
Once the connection is established, the BGP Speaker will advertise
all its BGP routes to the new neighbors
Route advertising principles of BGP:
In the case of multiple paths, the BGP Speaker only selects the
best one for its own use.
The BGP Speaker only advertises the routes used by itself to its
neighbors.
For the routes obtained from EBGP, the BGP Speaker will advertise
them to all its neighbors (including EBGP and IBGP).
For the routes obtained from IBGP, the BGP Speaker will not
advertise them to its IBGP neighbors.
For the routes obtained from IBGP, whether the BGP Speaker will
advertise them to its EBGP neighbors depends on the synchronization
state of IGP and BGP.
Once the connection is established, the BGP Speaker will advertise
all its BGP routes to the new neighbors.
These principles were stipulated by the BGP designers when they
were developing the BGP routing protocol. Further study of the
reasons is outside the scope of this document.
Quiz
what would BGP router do when the TCP connection established
?
A: exchange the routing table between the BGP neighbors
B: exchange the BGP routes between the BGP neighbors
C: check the BGP version ,as numbers to form the EBGP/IBGP
relationship
D: send a keep-a-live packet to the peer
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EBGP
EBGP
RTB
RTC
IBGP
RTA
RTD
RTE
RTF
E0:10.1.1.1/24
S0
S1
AS100
AS200
AS300
It is stated in the BGP protocol that: a BGP router does not
advertise the routing information learnt from the internal BGP
peers to the external peers, unless this information can also be
obtained from IGP. If a router can learn about this routing
information via IGP, then it can be considered that the route can
be broadcast inside AS and the internal connection is
ensured.
One of major duties of BGP is to transmit the network reachability
information of this AS to other ASs. As shown in the figure above,
RTB will encapsulate the routing information toward 10.1.1.1/24
into the UPDATE message, and advertise it to RTE via the TCP
connection established by RTC and RTD. If RTE does not take
synchronization into account, it will directly accept such routing
information and report it to RTF, then if RTF or RTE has the data
packet to be sent to 10.1.1.1/24, this packet must pass RTD and RTC
if it wants to reach the destination. As the synchronization was
not taken into account in advance, the routing tables of RTD and
RTC have no routing information to 10.1.1.1/24 and the data packet
will be discarded when it reaches RTD. So, BGP must be synchronous
with IGP (e.g., RIP, OSPF, etc.). Synchronization means that BGP
will not advertise the transitional information to other ASs until
IGP broadcasts this routing information successfully in its AS .
That is, after a router receives the update information of a
destination from the IBGP peer, it shall attempt to verify whether
this destination can be reached via the internal AS before
advertising it to other EBGP peers (i.e., verify whether this
destination is within IGP, and whether the non-BGP router can
transmit this traffic to this destination). If IGP knows this
destination, it will receive such routing information and then
advertise it to EBGP peers. Otherwise, it will consider that this
route is asynchronous with IGP and thus will not advertise
it.
As shown in the figure above, RTE gets the route going to the
network 10.1.1.1/24 inside AS100 via the IBGP neighborhood. RTE
will not add it to its own routing table at once, or advertise it
to RTF either. Instead, RTE will wait and see whether OSPF can also
get the route going to 10.1.1.1/24. If yes, it shows that IGP and
BGP are synchronous and then RTE will add this route to its routing
table and advertise it to RTF. Otherwise, then IGP and BGP are
asynchronous and RTE will not add the route going to 10.1.1.1/24 to
its routing table or advertise this route to RTF. There are many
solutions, and the simplest one is for RTB to redistribute the BGP
routing information to the OSPF routing table and then OSPF
advertises it to RTE. In this way, the synchronization is achieved.
But this is not recommended usually, because the BGP routing table
has a large size, and introducing it into OSPF will bring a heave
burden for the system. Another solution is to configure a static
route to 10.1.1.1/24 on RTB, and then redistribute this static
route into OSPF to achieve synchronization.
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OSPF discovers route 18.0.0.1/8
Dynamically redistribute the route discovered by IGP (OSPF) into
the BGP routing table of RTB
18.0.0.1/8
OSPF
RTB
AS200
The BGP routing protocol runs between ASs. Its major work is to
transmit routing information between ASs, instead of discovering
and calculating routing information. The work of discovering and
calculating routing information is done by the IGP routing
protocol, e.g. RIP and OSPF. The routing information of BGP needs
to be redistributed into BGP in the mode of configuration
commands.
According to the redistribution mode, it can be classified into
three types: purely dynamic redistribution, semi-dynamic
redistribution and static redistribution.
Purely dynamic redistribution means that the router gets the
routing information by IGP routing protocol and then dynamically
redistributes it into BGP.
As shown in the figure above, RTB dynamically detects the routes
going to the network 18.0.0.0/8 via OSPF protocol and then
dynamically redistributes it into BGP. We call such a kind of route
redistribution mode as purely dynamic redistribution.
The route leading to the network 18.0.0.0/8 is redistributed from
OSPF. Meanwhile, other routing information of OSPF is also
redistributed into BGP.
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OSPF discovers the route 18.0.0.1/8
Semi-dynamically redistribute the route discovered by IGP (OSPF)
into the BGP routing table of RTB
18.0.0.1/8
RTB
AS200
OSPF
Semi-dynamic redistribution means that the routing information is
dynamically discovered and calculated by IGP routing protocol. Part
of the specified routing information will be selectively
redistributed with the network command when it is redistributed
into the BGP system.
AS shown in the figure above, router B dynamically detects the
route going to the network 18.0.0.0/8 via OSPF protocol and then
redistributes it into BGP statically. Such a kind of route
redistribution mode is called semi-dynamic redistribution.
The route to be redistributed should be be specified with the user
interface of the router. As a result, only one specified OSPF route
is redistributed into the BGP routing table.
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Manually configure the static route 18.0.0.1/8
Redistribute the static route manually configured into the BGP
routing table of RTB
18.0.0.1/8
AS200
RTB
Static redistribution means that the routing information obtained
by the router is the static routing information manually
configured, which will be statically redistributed into the BGP
system.
As shown in the figure above, router B first establishes a static
route going to the network 18.0.0.0/8 and then redistributes it
into BGP. Such kind of route redistribution mode is called static
redistribution.
As a result, a manually configured route is added into the BGP
routing table.
How many methods can you use to installed the route to the bgp
routing table ?(choose all apply)
A: Full Dynamic Redistribution
B: Semi Dynamic Redistribution
Open: greeting--"hello, let's make friends!"
Keepalive: I'm alive, don't leave me alone
Update: fresh news...
Notification: i won't play with you any more!
BGP has four types of messagesOPEN, UPDATE, NOTIFICATION and
KEEPALIVE.
Between BGP peers, an OPEN message is transmitted so as to exchange
information such as version, AS number, hold time and BGP
identifier for negotiation.
What UPDATE message carries is route update information, including
route withdrawal information, reachable information and its path
attributes.
When BGP detects errors (e.g. connection interruption, negotiation
error , message error), it will send the NOTIFICATION message to
shut off the connection with its peers.
The KEEPALIVE messages are sent periodically between BGP neighbors
, so as to ensure the connection is kept alive . The default timer
is 60 seconds.
The OPEN message is mainly used to establish the neighborhood (BGP
peers). It is the initial handshake information between BGP routers
and shall occur before all notification information. Others will
respond with the KEEPALIVE message after receiving the OPEN
message. Once the handshake succeeds, these BGP neighbors can
exchange messages like UPDATE, KEEPALIVE and NOTIFICATION.
Quiz
(1) How many BGP messages available for the BGP version 4(choose
all apply)
A: OPEN
B: UPDATE
C: NOTIFICATION
D: KEEPALIVE
(2) How often down the BGP speaker send the KEEPALIVE message to
the BGP peers
A: every 30 seconds
B: every 60 seconds
C: every 90 seconds
D: every 10 seconds
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BGP messages have the same format: "message header + packet
body"
The BGP header is given as follows:
Marker(16 byte)
Length(2 byte)
Type(1 byte)
The format of BGP header is as shown in the figure above. The width
of each line is 4 bytes.
Marker authentication information: 16 bytes; all 1s. It is mainly
used to check whether the synchronization between BGP peers is lost
and verify the incoming BGP information.
Length: 2 bytes, indicating the length of the entire BGP message,
including the length of the header. The minimum length of BGP
message is 19 bytes (Keepalive message) and the maximum length of
BGP message is 4096 bytes.
Type: 1 byte, indicating the message type, such as OPEN or
UPDATE.
1.OPEN
2.UPDATE
3.NOTIFICATION
4.KEEPALIVE
Quiz
When a BGP speaker received a message with the type value is 4,
which BGP message type did this message belonging to
A: OPEN
B: UPDATE
C: NOTIFICATION
D: KEEPALIVE
Open Message
Open Message consists of the Message header and the structure
below
Optional Parameters
Length (1byte)
My Autonomous System: (2-byte unsigned integer), local AS
number.
Hold Time: (2-byte unsigned integer), hold time suggested by the
originating end.
BGP Identifier: (4-byte) identifier of the router at the
originating end.
Optional parameters Len: (1-byte) the total length of optional
parameters field.
Optional Parameters: (variable length) optional parameters.
The beginning of the message includes the version number of BGP and
the AS number of the sending party. And what follows is the field
of hold time, which is the set seconds of hold timer recommended by
the sending party. The hold timer prescribes the time length within
which BGP neighbors consider the information from the sending party
valid. The next field is BGP identifier (BGP), i.e. the identifier
of the sending party of BGP. This value is determined during the
handshake operation between BGP peers. It remains the same between
each local interface and each BGP peer.
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Marker(16 byte)
Length(2 byte)
Type(1 byte)
The Keepalive message is mainly used to confirm the availability of
links and running states between peer routers. It consists of a BGP
data header only. The requirement for the exchange periodically of
Keepalive message between peer routers is to ensure the peer can
keep the timer within the time limit of expiry.
After a router establishes BGP connection with its neighbors, it
will periodically send the Keepalive message to the peers according
to the time interval set by Keepalive-interval, indicating whether
this connection can be still held.
By default, the time interval between sending Keepalive is 60
seconds.
Quiz
A: every 10 seconds
B: every 30 seconds
C: every 1 minute
D: every 5 minutes
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Update Message
An Update Message consists of the header and the following
structure
Withdrawn Routes (variable length)
Unfeasible Routes Length (2byte)
Path Attribute Length (2byte)
Path Attribute (2byte)
Unfeasible Routes Len: (2-byte unsigned integer), length of
unreachable route.
Withdrawn Routes: (variable length) withdrawn route.
Path Attribute Len: (2-byte unsigned integer), length of path
attribute.
Path Attributes: (variable length) path attributes (described below
in detail).
Network Layer Reachability Information: (variable length)
information on Reachability of the network (destination).
Among them, the expression of the withdrawn route and destination
address is <length, prefix>. "length" indicates the length of
the address prefix, occupying 1 byte. "prefix" is the address
prefix, occupying 1-4 bytes.
The UPDATE message is the most important information in the BGP
system, used to exchange routing information between peers. It
comprises three parts at most, i.e. unreachable, path attributes,
and Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI).
The UPDATE message can advertise a route to BGP peers, and also can
withdraw multiple unreachable routes. The unreachable field
includes a list of IP address prefixes of withdrawn routes. The
path attributes field is a list of path attributes, including
attribute type, attribute length and attribute value. The NLRI
field includes a list of reachable IP address prefixes known by the
BGP router.
One UPDATE message can advertise one route only at one time, but it
can also carry multiple path attributes.
One UPDATE message can also advertise multiple routes at one time,
but the path attributes must be the same.
One UPDATE message can list multiple withdrawn routes at one
time.
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Notification Message
A Notification packet consists of the header and the structure
below
Data (variable length)
Exit
A notification message is used when error occurs or the peer
connection is stopped. This message carries various error codes
(e.g. timer expiry), including error code, auxiliary error code and
error information.
Errorcode: (1 byte) error code:
Error subcode: (1 byte) auxiliary error code.
Data: (variable length) depending on various error codes and
auxiliary error codes; used to diagnose error causes.
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Active
Open-sent
Open-confirm
Established
Idle
Connect
Connect-Retry
Others
The BGP finite state machine (FSM) has six states. The procedure of
transition between shows the establishment procedure of BGP
neighborhood. The first state is "Idle". Once BGP starts, the state
machine enters the "Connect" state. In this sate, if Connect-Retry
timer expires, the BGP state machine will stay in the "Connect"
state. Meanwhile, BGP will attempt to establish the TCP connection.
If the creation of TCP connection fails, the BGP state machine will
enter the "Active" state. If the TCP connection is established
successfully, the BGP state machine will enter the "OpenSent" state
directly. In "Active" state, if the TCP connection cannot be
established yet, the BGP state machine will stay in the "Active"
state and will not enter the "OpenSent" state until the TCP
connection is established successfully. In the "OpenSent" state,
once BGP receives a correct Open message, it will enter the
"OpenConfirm" state. In the "OpenConfirm" state, if the KeepAlive
timer expires, the BGP state machine will stay in the "OpenConfirm"
state. And it will not enter the "Established" state until BGP
receives the KeepAlive message. Till now, the BGP connection is
really established.
In addition, when any of the five states ("Idle" excluded) has
errors, the BGP state machine will return to the "Idle"
state.
Idle: "Idle" is the first state of BGP connection. In this state,
BGP is waiting for a start event. After such an event emerges, BGP
will initialize the resources, reset the Connect-Retry timer, and
initiate a TCP connection. Meanwhile, it will enter the "Connect"
state.
Connect: in this state, BGP establishes the first TCP connection.
If the Connect-Retry timer expires, BGP will establish the TCP
connection again and continue to stay in the "Connect" state. If
the TCP connection is established successfully, it will enter the
"OpenSent" state. Otherwise, it will enter the "Active"
state.
Active: In this state, BGP is always attempting to establish the
TCP connection. If the Connect-Retry timer expires, it will return
to the "Connect" state. Otherwise, it will enter the "OpenSent"
state. If the TCP connection fails, it will continue to stay in the
"Active" state and keep initiating the TCP connection.
OpenSent (Open message has been sent): in this state, TCP
connection has been established and BGP has sent the first Open
message. Then BGP will be waiting for its peer to send the Open
message. Meanwhile, it will check the correctness of the received
Open message. If the message has an error, the system will send an
error notification and return to the "Idle" state. If no error, BGP
will begin to send the Keepalive message and reset the Keepalive
timer to start timing. Meanwhile, it will enter the "OpenConfirm"
state.
OpenConfirm (confirmation of Open message): in this state, BGP
waits for a Keepalive message, and reset the hold timer. If it
receives a Keepalive message, it will enter the "Established"
state, and the BGP neighborhood is established. If the TCP
connection is broken, it will return to the "Idle" state.
Established (connection is established): in this state, the BGP
neighborhood is established. In this case, BGP will exchange Update
messages with its neighbors and meanwhile reset the hold
timer.
Quiz
(1)What happens during a BGP neighbor connection setup if there is
an error ?
A: the connection returns to the active state and will retry
B: The connection will go to the active state and will retry using
the TCP instead
C: the connection goes to the error state and will not retry
D: the connection will return to the idle state and will
retry
(2)Which stable state would be when there were no errors between
two BGP speakers
A: Active
B: Established
C: Idle
D: Connected
Application of Messages in BGP
The Open message is sent when establishing a BGP connection via
TCP
After the connection is established, the UPDATE message is sent to
notify the peer of the routing information if a route needs to be
sent or route change occurs
After stabilization, it is necessary to send the KEEPALIVE message
periodically to keep the validity of the BGP connection
When an error is found during the running of local BGP,
NOTIFICATION message shall be sent to notify the BGP peer
BGP establishes the connection via TCP. The local monitoring port
is 179. The establishment of BGP connection needs a series of
dialogs and handshakes, which is the same as that of TCP
connection. TCP uses the handshake negotiation to advertise
parameters like port. The handshake negotiation parameters of BGP
include BGP version, hold time of BGP connection, local router ID
and authorization information. They are included in the Open
message.
After BGP connection is established, the Update message shall be
sent to advertise the routing information to the peer end if there
is a route to be sent. The Update message is mainly used to
advertise the routing information, including failed (withdrawn)
route. When the Update message is used to distribute out the route,
the attribute of this route needs to be specified so as to help the
peer BGP protocol select the best route. For the application of
route attribute for BGP to select the route, please refer to the
application part of he BGP protocol route attribute.
When the local BGP route changes, the Update message can also be
used to correct the routing table of the peer BGP.
If, after exchanging the routing information for a period of time
both the local BGP and the peer BGP have no new route
advertisement, the condition becomes stable. Now the KEEPALIVE
message shall be sent regularly so as to make the BGP connection
remain valid. For the local BGP, if it receives no BGP message
after the hold time is over, this BGP connection will be regarded
as invalid and disconnection of this BGP will take place.
If, during the running, the local BGP detects an error, for
example, the local BGP does not support the version of the BGP peer
or receives the Update message with illegal structure, it shall
send the NOTIFICATION message to notify the BGP peer. When the
local BGP exits the BGP connection, it shall also send the
NOTIFICATION message. After the BGP receives the NOTIFICATION
message, related processing shall be made.
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BGP Path Attributes
A Path Attribute is a characteristic of an advertised BGP
route.
Each Path Attribute falls into one of four categories:
Well-known mandatory
Well-known discretionary
Optional transitive
Optional nontransitive
Well-known means it must be recognized by all BGP
implementations.
Optional means BGP implementation is not required to support the
attribute.
Mandatory means the attribute must be included in all BGP Update
messages
Discretionary means they may or may not be sent in a specific
Update messages
Transitive means a BGP process should accept the path in which the
attribute is included even if it doesn’t support this attribute and
it should pass the path on to its peers
Nontransitive means a BGP process that does not recognize the
attribute can quietly ignore the Update in which the attribute is
included and not advertise the path to its other peers
The enterprises and service providers are often concerned about
such questions: how to prevent my private network from being
advertised out? How to filter the route update that comes from some
neighboring route? how to make certain that I am using this link
instead of any other link?. It is through the use of route
attribute that BGP answers these questions.
BGP route attribute is a set of parameters. It further describes
the specific route so as to enable BGP to filter and select routes.
When configuring the route strategy, we often use the route
attribute. However, not all of them will be involved.
In fact, route attributes are classified into the following
categories:
Mandatory attribute: one that is necessary in the route update data
message. In the BGP routing information, this kind of attribute
domain has its unique role that cannot be substituted by any
others. If it is not included, something will be wrong with the
routing information. For example, AS-Path is a mandatory attribute.
The BGP uses this attribute to avoid route loop. So, if this
attribute is not included, the route may go wrong.
Optional attribute: optional; it is not necessarily required in the
route update data message. We set it depending on the actual needs.
For example, the MED attribute is an optional attribute, with which
we can control the route selection.
Transitional attribute: the attribute that has the transferability
between ASs. The field value of a transitional attribute can be
transmitted to other ASs and continue to work. For example, as to
the Origin attribute, once the origin of the routing information is
determined, the field value will exist all the time no matter which
AS this routing information will be sent to.
Non-transitional attribute: it only acts locally. Outside the AS,
the field value will be restored to the default value, such as
Local-preference.
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There are six attributes that are commonly used:
Origin: it is used to define the origin of the routing information,
indicating how a route becomes the BGP route, such as IGP, EGP, and
Incomplete.
As-Path: it is the sequence of the ASs passed by a route, listing
all the ASs passed by a route before it reaches the notified
network. The BGP speaker puts its own AS preamble to the head of
the received AS path, which can avoid route loop and be used for
route filtering and selection.
Next hop: it includes the IP address of the next hop border router
that reaches the network listed in the update information. The next
hop of the BGP is somewhat different from that of IGP. It can be an
address of the peer that notifies this route, such as EBGP, which
is similar to the IGP. But in some other cases, the BGP uses the
next hop of the third party. For example, the IBGP transmits
without any change the next hop obtained from the EBGP peer in the
AS. In the multiple access media, the BGP takes the actual origin
of the route as the next hop, even though it is not the BGP
peer.
Multi-Exit-Discriminators (MED): when some AS has multiple entries,
the MED attribute can be used to help its external neighboring
router select a better entry path. The smaller the MED value of a
route, the higher its precedence.
Local-Preference: this attribute is used to select in the AS the
route reaching some destination by preference. It reflects the
preference level of the BGP speaker for each external route. The
bigger the local-preference value, the higher the preference level
of the route.
Community: this attribute marks a group of routing information that
has the same feature, which is irrelevant with the IP subnet or AS
where it is located. The accepted community values are NO-EXPORT,
NO-ADVERTISE, LOCAL-AS and INTERNET.
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ORIGIN Attribute
ORIGIN specifies the origin of the routing update. When BGP has
multiple routes, it uses ORIGIN as one factor in determining the
preferred route.
IGP NLRI (Network layer Reachability Information) was learned from
a protocol internal to the originating AS. BGP routes are given an
origin of IGP if they are learned from an IGP routing table via the
network statement.
EGP NLRI was learned from the Exterior Gateway Protocol.
Incomplete NLRI was learned by some other means. Incomplete imply
that the information for determining the origin of the route is
incomplete. Routes that BGP learns through redistribution carry the
incomplete origin attribute.
Which one is preferred? IGP > EGP > Incomplete
When the BGP makes the route decision, it will take the origin
attribute into account to determine the precedence levels between
multiple routes. Specifically, the BGP will prefer the route with
the minimum origin attribute value, i.e. the IGP has the precedence
over EGP, and EGP has the precedence over INCOMPLETE. We can
configure these three origin attributes manually.
Generally:
If a route is redistributed into the BGP routing table with the
specifically, the origin attribute shall be IGP
If a route is obtained via EGP, the origin attribute shall be
EGP
Otherwise, the Origin attribute should be Incomplete
Quiz
(1)When import a route from ospf routing protocol into the BGP
routing table ,which origin attribute value would this route to be
?
A: IGP
B: EGP
C: OSPF
D: Incomplete
AS_PATH Attribute
AS-PATH uses a sequence of AS numbers to describe the inter-AS path
or route to the destination specified by the NLRI.
AS-PATH describes all AS it has passed through ,beginning with the
most recent AS and ending with the originating AS.
D(18.0.0.0/8)
AS200
AS300
AS400
AS100
AS500
RTA
RTB
30.0.0.1
30.0.0.2
D (500 200)
The AS-Path attribute is also a mandatory one. It is the sequence
of numbers of all the ASs passed by a route to a certain
destination. The BGP uses the AS-path attribute as a part of the
route update (message update) to ensure a loopless topology
structure over the Internet. The BGP will not accept the route of
this AS number contained in the AS-path attribute, because this
route has been processed by this AS. In this way, route loop is
avoided. For this reason, the BGP will add its own AS number to the
AS-path attribute when advertising a route to the EBGP peer, so as
to record the information on the AS area passed by the route.
Meanwhile, the AS-path attribute acts on route selection. In case
other factors are the same, the route with shorter AS path will be
selected. As shown in the figure above, the path for the network
segment D18.0.0.0/8 in AS200 to reach AS100 by passing AS200,
AS300, and AS400 is d1 (400 300 200) and that for it to reach AS100
by passing AS200 and AS500 is d2 (500 200). In this case, the BGP
will select the shorter path d2 by precedence.
Note: when the AS-Path field of a route records the AS-number, it
will always put the new AS-number in front. As shown in the figure
above, the route first passes AS200 and records d2 (200); then it
passes AS500 and records: d2 (500 200).
We can increase the path length by adding the pseudo AS number, so
as to act on route selection, We can configure RTA to add two AS
element ‘200, 200’ to the AS-Path list carried by the route it sent
to 30.0.0.2. After such a configuration, the path d2 will change
into 500 200 200 200, which is longer than the path d1. So now the
BGP will select the shorter path d1 by precedence.
Quiz
(1) When a route is passing AS100 from other AS, where the AS 100
value would be put in the as-path field ?
A: in the front of the AS-PATH list
B: in the back of the AS-PATH list
C: in the middle of the AS-PATH list
D: any place in the AS-PATH list as you want
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The Function of AS-PATH
AS can influence its incoming traffic by changing the AS_PATH of
its advertising route
AS_PATH can be used for loop avoidance
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AS200
AS300
AS400
AS100
AS500
RTA
RTB
30.0.0.1
30.0.0.2
RTA
I can reach 20.0.0.0/8 via the next hop 10.0.0.3
I can reach 19.0.0.0/8 via the next hop 21.0.0.1
RTC
I can reach 19.0.0.0/8 via the next hop 10.0.0.1
I can reach 20.0.0.0/8 via the next hop 10.0.0.3
The next hop attribute is also an accepted mandatory attribute. The
next hop in the BGP is different from that in the IGP. The concept
of the next hop in the BGP is a little complicated. It can be one
of the following three types:
When the BGP notifies the IBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it does not change the next hop attribute of the route. The
local BGP directly transmits the next hop attribute obtained from
the EBGP to the IBGP. As shown in the figure above, the next hop
attribute is 10.0.0.2 when the RTA notifies the route 18.0.0.0 to
RTB via the IBGP.
When the BGP notifies the EBGP peer of the route, the next hop
attribute is the port address of the connection between the BGP and
its peer. As shown in the figure above, the next hop attribute is
10.0.0.2 when the RTC notifies the RTA of the route 18.0.0.0/8. And
when it notifies the RTC of the route 19.0.0.0/8, the next hop
attribute is 10.0.0.1.
For the multi-access network (e.g. Ethernet or frame relay),
something is different with the next hop. As shown in the figure
above, when RTC is advertising the route 20.0.0.0/8 to the EBGP
router RTA, it finds that the local port 10.0.0.2 and the next hop
10.0.0.3 of this route are the same shared subnet. So, it uses
10.0.0.3 as the next hop to advertise the route to the EBGP,
instead of 10.0.0.2.
Quiz
select the following statement which are true
A: When the BGP notifies the IBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it does not change the next hop attribute of the route
B: When the BGP notifies the IBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it change the next hop attribute to the local ip
address.
C: When the BGP notifies the EBGP of the route obtained from other
IBGPs, it does not change the next hop attribute of the route
D: When the BGP notifies the EBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it change the next hop attribute to the local ip
address.
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LOCAL_PREF Attribute
LOCAL_PREF is used to communicate a BGP router’s degree of
preference for an advertised route.
LOCAL_PREF is only in updates between internal BGP peers and it is
not passed to other AS.
If an internal BGP speaker receives multiple routes to the same
destination, it compares the LOCAL_PREF attribute of the routes.
The route with highest LOCAL_PREF is selected.
The LOCAL_PREF attribute affects only traffic leaving the AS.
The local precedence attribute is an optional attribute. It
represents the precedence level assigned to a route, with which we
can compare different routes that have the same destination. The
bigger the attribute value, the higher the precedence level of the
route. This attribute is used only inside the AS and exchanged
between IBGP peers, but not notified to the EBGP peer. In short,
the local precedence attribute is used to help the router inside
the AS select the optimal egress for it to go out, i.e. select the
egress with higher local precedence level.
What shall be noted is: configuring the attribute value of local
precedence level will only affect the traffic that leaves this AS,
but not the traffic that enters this AS. By default, the value of
local precedence attribute is 100.
Quiz
A BGP speaker received the same route from its two IBGP peer with
different preference ,which route the BGP speaker will use by
default ?
A: the route with the bigger preference value
B: the route with the smaller preference value
C: the route with the bigger router-id
D: the route with the smaller router-id
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Dlocal-pref2 200 RTA will select local-pref2 that has higher local
preference
AS400
AS100
AS300
AS200
RTA
RTB
RTC
RTD
RTE
RTF
Dlocal-pref1 100
Dlocal-pref2 200
As shown in the figure above, the RTB sets the local precedence
level of the route received via the RTD as local-pref1 100, and the
RTC sets the local precedence level of the route received via the
RTE as local-pref2 200. In this way, the RTA will prefer
local-pref2 which has a higher precedence level.
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MULTI-EXIT-DISC (MED) Attribute
MED is carried in EBGP updates and allows an AS to inform another
AS of its preferred ingress points. It is meant only for a single
AS to demonstrate a degree of preference when it has multiple
ingress points.
MED attribute affects only the incoming traffic to the AS.
If all else is equal , an AS receiving multiple routes to the same
destination compare the MED of the routes. The lowest MED value is
prefered. MEDs are not compared if two routes to the same
destination are received from two different AS.
The MED is passed between internal peers of the receiving AS but
not passed beyond the receiving AS. MED is used only to influence
traffic between two directly connected AS.
The MED attribute is optional, used to indicate the preferable path
for the external neighbor router to enter some AS that has multiple
entries. When some AS has multiple entries, the MED attribute can
be used to help its external neighbor router select a better entry
path. That is, select the entry path with smaller MED value by
precedence.
A BGP speaker received the same route from its two EBGP peer with
different MED value ,which route the BGP speaker will use by
default ?
A: the route with the bigger MED value
B: the route with the smaller MED value
C: use tow for backup
D: the route with the smaller router-id
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IBGP
As shown in the figure above, we can set the metric value of the
network D notified by the RTB as metric 1 10 and that of the
network D notified by the RTC as metric 2 20. In this way, the RTA
will select the metric 1 that has smaller metric value by
precedence.
Generally, the router only compares the MED values of respective
EBGP neighbor paths from the same AS, but not those from different
ASs. If comparison is required, the Quidway series routers offer
the one user interface command to change this default
behavior.
Note: By default, it is not allowed to compare the MED attribute
values of paths from different AS neighbors, unless it can be
confirmed that different ASs adopt the same IGP and route selection
method.
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Community Attribute
Community is designed to simplify policy enforcement. It identifies
a destination as a member of some community of destinations that
share one or more common properties.
The COMMUNITY attribute is a set of four octets values AA:NN. AA is
AS number. NN is an administratively defined identifier.
In the range of the BGP, a community is a group of destinations
that have the same nature. It is not limited to a network or an AS
and has no physical boundary.
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NO_EXPORT
Routes received carrying this value cannot be advertised to EBGP
peers and outside of the confederation
NO_ADVERTISE
Routes received carrying this value cannot be advertised at all to
either EBGP or IBGP peers.
LOCAL_AS
Routes received carrying this value cannot be advertised to EBGP
peers including peers in other AS within a confederation.
INTERNET
All routes belong to this community by default. Received routes
belonging to this community are advertised freely
The community attribute is an optional transitional attribute. Some
communities are accepted, i.e. they have the global meaning. These
communities are:
NO_EXPORT: after a route with such a community attribute value is
received, it shall not be notified to the peers outside an
confederation.
NO_ADVERTISE: after a route with such a community attribute value
is received, it shall not be notified to any BGP peers.
LOCAL-AS: after a route with such a community attribute value is
received, it shall be notified to the peers inside the local AS,
but not to any EBGP peers (including the EBGP peers inside the
confederation).
INTERNET: After a route with such a community attribute value is
received, it shall be notified to all other routers.
Besides these accepted community attribute values, the private
community attribute values can also be used for special objectives.
These attribute values are marked with some numbers.
One route can have multiple community attribute values, which is
similar to the case where a route can have multiple AS numbers in
its AS path attribute. The BGP router, which sees multiple
community attribute values in one route, can take action according
to one or more or all of these attribute values. The router can add
or modify the community attribute values before it transmits the
route to other peers.
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In general, the procedure of local BGP route selection is:
1. If the next hop of this route is unreachable, this route is not
selected.
2. Select the route with a higher local preference.
3. Select the originated route by the local router (same local
precedence).
4. Select the route with shortest AS path.
5. Select the route with lowest origin code (IGP lower than EGP,
EGP lower than Incomplete ).
6. Select the route with smallest MED .
7.Performing load sharing on multiple routes according to the
configured number of routes (in case load sharing is configured and
there are multiple external routes to the same AS)
8. Select the route with smallest Router ID .
Generally, the procedure of local BGP route selection is:
(1)If the next hop of this route is unreachable, then drop this
route.
(2)Select the route with a higher local precedence level.
(3)Select the originated route by the local router (the same local
precedence level).
(4)Select the route whose AS path is shortest.
(5)Select the route whose origin type is IGP, EGP, and Incomplete
in turn.
(6)Select the route whose MED is smallest.
(7)performing load sharing on multiple routes according to the
configured number of routes (in case load sharing is configured and
there are multiple external routes to the same AS)
(8)Select the route whose Router ID is smallest.
Select the best answer for the BGP route selection ( )
(1)Select the route with a higher local precedence level.
(2)Select the route whose AS path is shortest.
(3)Select the route whose MED is smallest
(4)If the next hop of this route is unreachable, then drop this
route.
A: 4-1-2-3
B: 4-1-3-2
C: 1-2-3-4
D: 1-3-2-4
Principle of BGP
Answer for Quiz
which of the following are distance vector routing protocol?
(choose all that apply)
A: OSPF
B: IS-IS
C: RIP
D: BGP
Which port number does BGP use to setup the TCP connection ?
A: 89
B: 443
C: 179
D: 23
Which one of the following statements about BGP is FALSE?
A. BGP uses TCP port 179.
B. BGP ensures reliability of updates by using the reliable
transport services of TCP.
C. BGP speaker will send the update to its peers periods.
unless there is a matching prefix exists in the IP route
table.
D. A TCP connection is required before exchanging updates.
How many AS number available to the public internet network?
A: 1~64511
B: 1~65525
C: 64512~65535
D: 0~65535
Which of the following statements about IBGP routers are true?
(Select one.)
A. They must be fully meshed.
B. They can be in a different AS.
C. They must be directly connected.
D. They do not need to be directly connected.
what would BGP router do when the TCP connection established
?
A: exchange the routing table between the BGP neighbors
B: exchange the BGP routes between the BGP neighbors
C: check the BGP version ,as numbers to form the EBGP/IBGP
relationship
D: send a keep-a-live packet to the peer
How many methods can you use to installed the route to the bgp
routing table ?(choose all apply)
A: Full Dynamic Redistribution
B: Semi Dynamic Redistribution
D: IGP route redistribute
How many BGP messages available for the BGP version 4(choose all
apply)
A: OPEN
B: UPDATE
C: NOTIFICATION
D: KEEPALIVE
How often down the BGP speaker send the KEEPALIVE message to the
BGP peers
A: every 30 seconds
B: every 60 seconds
C: every 90 seconds
D: every 10 seconds
When a BGP speaker received a message with the type value is 4,
which BGP message type did this message belonging to
A: OPEN
B: UPDATE
C: NOTIFICATION
D: KEEPALIVE
A: every 10 seconds
B: every 30 seconds
C: every 1 minute
D: every 5 minutes
What happens during a BGP neighbor connection setup if there is an
error ?
A: the connection returns to the active state and will retry
B: The connection will go to the active state and will retry using
the TCP instead
C: the connection goes to the error state and will not retry
D: the connection will return to the idle state and will
retry
Which stable state would be when there were no errors between two
BGP speakers
A: Active
B: Established
C: Idle
D: Connected
(1)When import a route from ospf routing protocol into the BGP
routing table ,which origin attribute value would this route to be
?
A: IGP
B: EGP
C: OSPF
D: Incomplete
When a route is passing AS100 from other AS, where the AS 100 value
would be put in the as-path field ?
A: in the front of the AS-PATH list
B: in the back of the AS-PATH list
C: in the middle of the AS-PATH list
D: any place in the AS-PATH list as you want
select the following statement which are true
A: When the BGP notifies the IBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it does not change the next hop attribute of the route
B: When the BGP notifies the IBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it change the next hop attribute to the local ip
address.
C: When the BGP notifies the EBGP of the route obtained from other
IBGPs, it does not change the next hop attribute of the route
D: When the BGP notifies the EBGP of the route obtained from other
EBGPs, it change the next hop attribute to the local ip
address.
A BGP speaker received the same route from its two IBGP peer with
different preference ,which route the BGP speaker will use by
default ?
A: the route with the bigger preference value
B: the route with the smaller preference value
C: the route with the bigger router-id
D: the route with the smaller router-id
A BGP speaker received the same route from its two EBGP peer with
different MED value ,which route the BGP speaker will use by
default ?
A: the route with the bigger MED value
B: the route with the smaller MED value
C: use tow for backup
D: the route with the smaller router-id
Select the best answer for the BGP route selection ( )
(1)Select the route with a higher local precedence level.
(2)Select the route whose AS path is shortest.
(3)Select the route whose MED is smallest
(4)If the next hop of this route is unreachable, then drop this
route.
A: 4-1-2-3
B: 4-1-3-2
C: 1-2-3-4
D: 1-3-2-4