Configuring BGP Peer Tracking

BGP peer tracking provides fast link or peer fault detection for BGP to speed up network convergence.

Context

BFD can be configured to detect peer relationship status changes in order to implement rapid BGP convergence. BFD, however, needs to be configured on the entire network and has poor extensibility. If BFD cannot be deployed to detect BGP peer relationship status changes, you can configure BGP peer tracking on the local device to quickly detect link or peer unreachability, implementing rapid network convergence. In addition, you can adjust the interval between detecting peer unreachability and terminating the BGP connection to suppress BGP peer relationship flapping caused by route flapping, thereby improving BGP network stability.

Procedure

  1. Run system-view

    The system view is displayed.

  2. Run bgp as-number

    The BGP view is displayed.

  3. Run peer { group-name | ipv4-address | ipv6-address } tracking [ delay delay-time ]

    BGP peer tracking is configured for a specified peer or peer group.

  4. Run commit

    The configuration is committed.

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