BGP

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Best Practice: Set a template - remember to unclude all segments

This set the baseline BGP settings - so you don't have to remember everytime you add a BGP neighbor Keeps setting consistent.

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Routing options:

(1)AS Path Propagate > Yes

(2)Graceful Restart > Yes
(3)Max > 30
(4)Stale > 60
Above not mandatory may adjust higher/lower, these are reference values

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Keep Alive Timer

(5)Set 5
Adjust higher/lower to match your environment
Hold timer
(6)Set 15
Adjust higher/lower to match your environment

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We do not use the AS-PATH for fabric routing (inter-fabric does not run BGP) however we do pass the AS-PATH over/through the fabric so BGP routing points can use this information.