Configure BGP
The BGP configuration can be found under Locations > Routing.
Prerequisites
- The location must have at least one VPN connected to it. More information under: Assign, configure and connect VPNs to a site
- The location must have at least one VLAN created. More information under: VLANs and LAN-IP addressing
- To configure BGP with IPv6 peer addresses, IPv6 must be enabled on the assigned VPN and configured on the VLAN. For more information, see:
Configuration
- Select the VPN in which the BGP peer should be created.
- Add a new BGP peer for each BGP router on the LAN to exchange routing information.
- Select the VLAN for the transit subnet.
- Configure the BGP peer with the following parameters:
- Peer IP: IP address of the neighbour BGP router. The peer IP can be configured as an IPv4 or IPv6 address if the selected VLAN supports IPv6.
- Peer AS: AS number of the neighbour BGP router.
- Range: 1 - 4294967295. AS 65521 is reserved.
- Local AS: AS number of the local BGP router. This number must be different from the Peer AS. Default: 65001. Range: 1 - 4294967295. AS 65521 is reserved.
- Hello Interval: Frequency with which BGP keepalive messages are sent. Default: 60 seconds. Range: 1 to 300.
- Dead Interval: Duration when no keepalive messages are received until a link is defined as down. Default: 180 seconds. The value must be at least 3 x Hello Interval. Range: 3 to 900.
- Max Hop: Defines the maximum hop count for EBGP peer relationships with peers in a non-directly connected network. Entering 0 restores the default configuration. Values from 1 to 255 allow BGP to establish EBGP peer relationships with peers that are not directly connected.
- BFD: Enable or disable Bidirectional Forwarding Detection for the BGP peer.
- MD5 Encryption: If you want to encrypt the BGP routing information, you can activate this here and define the key. Length: 6 to 255 characters. Allowed values: Alphanumeric and "`!@#$%^
- Configure import and export policies if required.
- Submit the configuration order.