Configuration

The following section provides configuration guidelines that should be used when configuring BGP ORF. BGP ORF is asymmetric in nature and independently configured on each end of the connection.

The steps to configure BGP ORF consist of the following:

  1. Enabling the BGP ORF capability as send-mode.

  2. Enabling the BGP ORF capability as receive-mode.

  3. Ensure backward compatibility of the old knobs

Enabling the BGP ORF Capability as Send-Mode

The command to enable the BGP ORF capability as send mode is as follows:

[no] neighbor x.x.x.x capability orf prefix list send

This command is used to configure the local router to advertise the ORF capability with BGP ORF-type (value 128) in send-mode (value 2) during session ...

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