H3C Technologies H3C S10500 Series Switches - Manual (Page 263)

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To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter BGP view bgp as-number —
Enter IPv4 MBGP address family
view
ipv4-family multicast —
Configure the maximum number of
MBGP routes for load balancing
balance number
Required
Not configured by default.
Configuring a large scale MBGP network
Prerequisites
Before you configure this task, you must make peering nodes accessible to each other at the network
layer.
Configuring ipv4 MBGP peer groups
In a large-scale network, configuration and maintenance become difficult due to large numbers of MBGP
peers. You can configure peer groups to make management easier and improve route distribution
efficiency.
Follow these steps to configure an IPv4 MBGP peer group:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view system-view —
Enter BGP view bgp as-number —
Create a BGP peer group
group group-name [ external |
internal ] Required
Not created by default.
Add a peer into the peer group
peer ip-address group group-name
[ as-number as-number ] Required
No peer is added by default.
Enter IPv4 MBGP address family
view
ipv4-family multicast —
Enable the IPv4 unicast peer group peer group-name enable Required
Add an IPv4 MBGP peer to the
peer group
peer ip-address group group-name
Required
Not configured by default.
CAUTION:
•
To configure an MBGP peer group, you must enable the corresponding IPv4 BGP unicast peer group in
IPv4 MBGP address family view.
• Before adding an MBGP peer to an MBGP peer group, you must add the corresponding IPv4 unicast
peer to the IPv4 BGP peer group.