Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.0(24)S

BGP Configuration Using Peer Templates

How to Configure BGP Using Peer Templates

Cisco IOS Release: Multiple Releases (see the Feature History table)

Configuring Peer Policy Template Inheritance with the neighbor inherit
peer-policy Command

This task configures a router to send a peer policy template to a neighbor to inherit with the neighbor
inherit peer-policy command. Use the following steps to send a peer policy template configuration to a
neighbor to inherit:

SUMMARY STEPS

enable

configure terminal

router bgp as-number

neighbor ip-address remote-as as-number

address-family {ipv4 | ipv6 | vpnv4 [multicast | unicast | vrf vrf-name]}

neighbor ip-address inherit peer-policy policy-template-name

exit

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

enable

Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

•

Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure

terminal

Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

router bgp

as-number

Example:

Router(config)# router bgp 101

Enters router configuration mode and creates a BGP routing
process.

Step 4

neighbor

ip-address remote-as as-number

Example:

Router(config-router)# neighbor 10.0.0.1

remote-as 202

Configures a peering session with the specified neighbor.

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The explicit remote-as statement is required for the
neighbor inherit statement in Step 5 to work. If a
peering is not configured, the specified neighbor in
Step 5 will not accept the session template.

Step 5

address-family

{ipv4 | ipv6 |vpnv4 [multicast |

unicast

| vrf vrf-name]}

Example:

Router(config-router)# address-family ipv4

unicast

Enter address family configuration mode to configure a
neighbor to accept address family-specific command
configurations.