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BGP

Unit 1: Introduction to BGP

eBGP (external BGP)

eBGP Multi-Hop

iBGP (internal BGP)

How to read the BGP Table

How to advertise networks in BGP

iBGP Next Hop Self

BGP Auto-summary

Unit 2: BGP Neighbor Adjacency

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BGP Auto-Summary
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In a previous lesson I explained how the BGP network command works. When we enable auto-
summary for BGP, the way the network command works changes slightly.

Normally when you advertise a network in BGP you have to type in the exact network and subnet
mask that you want to advertise or it won’t be placed in the BGP table.

With auto-summary enabled, you can advertise a classful network and you don’t have to add the
mask parameter. BGP will automatically advertise the classful network if you have the classful
network or a subnet of this network in your routing table. Let me give you an example to explain
what I’m talking about. I’ll use these two routers:

These routers are con윪gured for eBGP, there’s a loopback interface on R1 with network 1.1.1.1 /32.
Here’s the con윪guration:

R1#show run | section bgp 
router bgp 1 
 bgp log‐neighbor‐changes 
 neighbor 192.168.12.2 remote‐as 2

R2#show run | section bgp 
router bgp 2 
 bgp log‐neighbor‐changes 
 neighbor 192.168.12.1 remote‐as 1

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The con윪guration is straight-forward, we only con윪gured eBGP, no networks have been advertised
and auto-summary is disabled. Let’s see if we can advertise classful network 1.0.0.0/8:

R1(config)#router bgp 1 
R1(config‐router)#network 1.0.0.0

Note that I didn’t specify a subnet mask with the mask parameter. Take a look at the BGP table
now:

R1#show ip bgp 1.0.0.0 
% Network not in table

As expected there is nothing in the BGP table since we require the exact network and subnet
mask. Let’s enable auto-summary now so you can see the di蚇୮erence:

R1(config)#router bgp 1 
R1(config‐router)#auto‐summary

After enabling auto-summary things will change. Take a look at the BGP table of R1:

R1#show ip bgp 1.0.0.0 
BGP routing table entry for 1.0.0.0/8, version 2 
Paths: (1 available, best #1, table default) 
  Advertised to update‐groups: 
     1 
  Local 
    0.0.0.0 from 0.0.0.0 (192.168.12.1) 
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, weight 32768, valid, sourced, local, 
best

R1 now has an entry for classful network 1.0.0.0/8. It was able to install this in its BGP table
because auto-summary is enabled and we have 1.1.1.1/32 in our routing table. This network will
also be advertised to R2:

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R2#show ip bgp 
BGP table version is 2, local router ID is 192.168.12.2 
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i ‐ internal, 
              r RIB‐failure, S Stale, m multipath, b backup‐path, x best‐
external, f RT‐Filter 
Origin codes: i ‐ IGP, e ‐ EGP, ? ‐ incomplete 

   Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path 
*> 1.0.0.0          192.168.12.1             0             0 1 i

That's all there is to it.

Configurations

Want to take a look for yourself? Here you will 윪nd the con윪guration of each device.

R1
hostname R1 
! 
interface Loopback 0 
 ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255 
! 
interface fastEthernet0/0 
 ip address 192.168.12.1 255.255.255.0 
! 
router bgp 1 
 neighbor 192.168.12.2 remote‐as 2 
 network 1.0.0.0 
 auto‐summary 
! 
end

R2
hostname R2 
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! 
interface fastEthernet0/0 
 ip address 192.168.12.2 255.255.255.0 
! 
router bgp 2 
 neighbor 192.168.12.1 remote‐as 1 
! 
end

I hope this example has been useful, if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment!

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