Usage Scenario
After BGP Add-Path is configured on an RR, the RR needs to send routes to a specified peer. To configure the maximum number of routes that the RR can send to the peer, run the peer advertise add-path command. The actual number of routes that the RR can send to the peer is the smaller one of the value configured using the peer advertise add-path command and the actual number of routes selected by the RR. If the maximum number of routes that the RR can send to the peer is less than the actual number of routes selected by the RR, the RR selects the optimal and Add-Path routes based on the BGP route selection rules.
Prerequisites
The following operations have been performed:
- BGP Add-Path has been enabled and the maximum number of routes that an RR can select has been configured using the bestroute add-path command.
- The RR has been enabled to send Add-Path routes to a specified peer using the peer capability-advertise add-path send command.
Precautions
- You need to run the peer capability-advertise add-path receive command on a peer so that the peer can have Add-Path routes from the specified RR.
- The RR can send Add-Path routes only to IBGP peers, and Add-Path routes are advertised based on BGP route advertisement rules.
- If a peer is specified when the peer advertise add-path command is run, a peer group is specified when the peer advertise best-external command is run, and then the peer is added to the peer group, the peer cannot inherit the configuration of the peer advertise best-external command from the peer group.