August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
The activate command is new to IOS BGP configuration as part of the AF CLI enhancements. It's used to enable (or activate) support of the specified AF for a neighbor. This section discusses the old method used to enable an AF for a neighbor and then provides guidelines for using the new method.
The activate command was not available in 12.0S. The neighbor was activated for IPv4 BGP automatically. However, if MBGP was enabled, the nlri keyword in the neighbor command was required:
Router(config-router)#neighbor 1.2.3.4 remote-as 10 nlri unicast multicast
If the nlri keyword was not specified, the router would exchange IPv4 prefixes only. If the nlri keyword was specified with the multicast option only, only the IPv4 ...
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