Sunday, May 13, 2012

Site of Origin BGP Community Attribute

Site of Origin BGP Community Attribute

The site-of-origin (SoO) extended community is a BGP extended community attribute that is used to identify routes that have originated from a site so that the readvertisement of that prefix back to the source site can be prevented. The SoO extended community uniquely identifies the site from which a router has learned a route. BGP can use the SoO value associated with a route to prevent routing loops.

BGP per Neighbor Site of Origin Configuration

There are three ways to configure an SoO value for a BGP neighbor:
BGP peer policy template—A peer policy template is created, and an SoO value is configured as part of the peer policy. Under address family IPv4 VRF, a neighbor is identified and is configured to inherit the peer policy that contains the SoO value.
BGP neighbor command—Under address family IPv4 VRF, a neighbor is identified, and an SoO value is configured for the neighbor.
BGP peer group—Under address family IPv4 VRF, a BGP peer group is configured, an SoO value is configured for the peer group, a neighbor is identified, and the neighbor is configured as a member of the peer group. 

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