bgp
Confederation

In a standard BGP configuration, all BGP speakers, within an autonomous system (AS), have a full mesh of BGP peerings to insure all externally learned routes are redistributed through out the entire AS. This is due to the fact that IBGP speakers do not re-advertise routes learned from one IBGP peer to another IBGP peer. However, as a network grows, scaling issues emerge due to the full mesh requirement. The BGP confederation feature is one method to alleviate the full mesh requirement while still maintaining the full distribution of external routing information within an AS.

To form BGP confederations, an AS is logically divided into smaller groupings called subconfederations. Each sub-confederation must maintain a full mesh of IBGP peerings between all members of the confederation.

This object acts as a container of all members belonging to this Confederation AS number as configured by the Confederation Autonomous System Number in the Routing Site. It will be implicitly created when the first member is created and implicitly deleted when the last member is deleted. Explicit creation or deletion of this object without any members does not have any NE impact. Explicit deletion of this object with members will only delete confederation members on NE. But the confederation AS number can only be cleared by resetting the Confederation Autonomous System Number (value of 0) property in the Routing Site.

• Relative Name=[[confederation-${confederationAS}]]
• Displayed Name=Confederation

Input Parameters:

deployer : Deployer - the deployment state
synchronousDeploy : boolean - (Optional) Specify whether to block until the changes have been fully deployed to the network. A value of "true" means to block. A value of "false" means to return immediately. Default: false (asynchronous)
clearOnDeployFailure : boolean - (Optional) Specify whether to clear any failed deployers. A value of "true" means to clear. A value of "false" means to leave the failed deployer. Default: false
deployRetries : int - (Optional) The number of times to attempt re-deployment during synchronous deployment. This parameter is meaningless in the asynchronous case. Default: 0
deployRetryInterval : long - (Optional) The number of milliseconds to wait between deployment retries. This parameter is meaningless in the asynchronous case. Default: 0
taskDescription : string - (Optional) A user friendly description of what the operation does. This information will be used by the task manager.
instanceFullName : string - the full name of the object.
configInfo : generic.CommonManagedContainmentEntityConfigurationInformation -
continueOnFailure : continueOnFailure - (Optional) Continue processing requests in this stream if an exception occurs, unless the request is invalid. Default: false

Output Parameters:

objectFullName : string -

Exceptions:

bgp.Confederation.configureException

Output Parameters:

infoList : List (generic.CommonManagedEntityInformation) -