Cisco Cisco Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF)
BGP Configuration Mode Commands
address-family ipv4 ▀
Command Line Interface Reference, StarOS Release 17 ▄
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address-family ipv4
Enters the IPv4 Address Family configuration mode. Optionally, it also enables the Virtual Routing and Forwarding
(VRF) routing configuraiton, if specified.
(VRF) routing configuraiton, if specified.
Product
All
Privilege
Security Administrator, Administrator
Mode
Exec > Global Configuration > Context Configuration > BGP Configuration
configure > context context_name > router bgp as_number
Entering the above command sequence results in the following prompt:
[context_name]host_name(config-bgp)#
Syntax
[ no ] address-family ipv4 [ vrf vrf_name]
no
Removes the configured IPv4 address family VRF mode.
address-family ipv4
Enters the BGP Address-Family IPv4 mode to allow entry of IPv4 BGP parameters.
Important:
The route distinguisher ID must be configured for the VRF name via the
route-distinguisher
command in BGP VRF Configuration mode, before using this keyword.
vrf
vrf_name
Enables the exchange of VRF routing information. When this keyword is specified with this command, the
address family mode changes to VRF address family mode.
address family mode changes to VRF address family mode.
vrf_name
is the name of an existing VFR
expressed as an alphanumeric string of 1 through 63 characters.
Usage
Use this command to configure the IPv4 BGP address family configuration parameters and optionally enables
the exchange of VRF routing information.
Use of the
the exchange of VRF routing information.
Use of the
address-family ipv4
command switches the command mode to BGP Address Family
Configuration Mode; the CLI prompt changes to:
[context_name>]host_name(config-bgp-af-v4)#
Use of
address-family ipv4 vrf
vrf_name
command switches the command mode to BGP Address
Family Configuration Mode; the CLI prompt changes to:
[context_name>]host_name(config-bgp-af-vrf)#