Compatible Systems 5.4 Manuale Utente

router must also have a route to the external peer that is not directly connected 
in order to establish a connection.

The peer weight value assigns an internal rating to the peer. Peers with a 
higher weight are preferred when multiple routes exist to the same destina-
tion. The number must be within the range of 0 to 65,535. 

The amount of time, in seconds, between retries to establish a connection to 
configured peers which have gone down for some reason. The value must be 
at least 10 seconds. 

The interval, in seconds, the router will wait for an update or keepalive packet 
from the peer before declaring the peer down. The hold time is actually nego-
tiated between peers, which will use the smaller of the two hold times 
proposed. The value must be either 0, or at least 3 seconds. If zero is selected, 
keepalive packets will not be sent.

This checkbox allows the router’s loopback address to be used as the IP 
source in TCP packets to that peer rather than a specific IP address of one of 
its interfaces. 

v Note:  If this box is checked, you must specify an IP address in the IP Loop-
back Dialog Box.

This checkbox sets whether the default route to this peer will be advertised to 
other peers.

This dialog box allows an IP Loopback address to be specified for the router. 
This parameter only needs to be set if you are using the BGP protocol and the 
Use BGP Loopback option is specified. 

IP Loopback Dialog Box