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bgp router-id


Configures a BGP router ID.

Syntax: [no] bgp router-id id-number

id-number

IP address that identifies this BGP router.

Description: Router ID is the tie-breaker for BGP path selection. The path selection process uses a variety of metrics to select a route. If all other metrics (accessibility, administrative weight, local preference, etc.) are equal, BGP determines the router ID using the following priority:

  1. Use the address configured by the bgp router-id command

  2. Use the Loopback interface address with the highest IP address

  3. Use the highest IP address of the interface

  4. If no interface exists, set the router-ID to 0.0.0.0

Use bgp router-id command to set the router-ID for the system.

WARNING The bgp router-id command causes the BGP and OSPF processes to restart using the new router-ID (if the processes are enabled and router-ID has changed).

Use the no bgp router-id to use the default BGP router-ID for this router.

BGP recomputes the router-ID based on the items 2, 3, and 4 above and restart OSPF and BGP (if they are enabled and router-ID has changed).

Factory Default: Loopback interface with the highest IP address.

Command Mode: Router configuration.

Example: In the following example, the bgp router-id command manually configures the router ID as 5.1.1.49, and the show ip bgp summary command displays the setting:

router(config-router)#bgp router-id 5.1.1.49

router(config-router)#end

router#show ip bgp summary

BGP currently operating:

AS: 100

Router ID: 5.1.1.49

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Related Commands: router bgp
show ip bgp summary


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