.\" $OpenBSD: bgpd.8,v 1.46 2012/09/26 16:19:44 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: September 26 2012 $ .Dt BGPD 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm bgpd .Nd "Border Gateway Protocol daemon" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm bgpd .Bk -words .Op Fl cdnv .Op Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value .Op Fl f Ar file .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a Border Gateway Protocol .Pq BGP daemon which manages the network routing tables. Its main purpose is to exchange information concerning .Qq network reachability with other BGP systems. .Nm uses the Border Gateway Protocol, Version 4, as described in RFC 4271. .Pp BGP is an exterior gateway protocol using a multiple step decision process to find the best path. Advanced filtering can be used to influence the route decision for traffic engineering. The session engine of .Nm is responsible for maintaining the TCP session with each neighbor. Updates are passed to the Route Decision Engine (RDE) where the paths are filtered and used to compute a Routing Information Base (RIB). The parent process is responsible for keeping the RIB in sync with the kernel routing table. .Pp The route decision process selects the best path by evaluating all paths to the same destination. The decision process continues to the next step if paths have equal attributes. Paths that are less preferred are taken out of consideration until there is only one path left. .Bl -enum -width 42 -offset bula .It All paths with errors or loops are not eligible. .It Paths with an unreachable nexthop are not eligible. After this step all remaining paths are valid. .It The path with the highest .Em LOCAL_PREF is selected. .It The path with the shortest .Em AS path attribute is selected. .It The .Em ORIGIN attribute is compared. The order is IGP before EGP before incomplete origins. .It The path with the lowest .Em MULTI_EXIT_DISC metric is selected. Normally, this value is only considered when choosing between multiple routes sent by the same neighbouring AS. However, if .Dq Li rde med compare always is set in the configuration, the metric is compared for routes sent by any AS. .It Comparison of the BGP session type. Paths learned over an external (EBGP) session are preferred over those learned via an internal (IBGP) session. .It The path with the lowest local .Em weight is selected. .It If .Dq Li rde route-age evaluate is set then the oldest path is selected. .It The path coming from the neighbor with the lowest .Em BGP ID wins. If the .Em ORIGINATOR_ID attribute is present that value will be used in the comparison instead. .It The path with the shortest .Em CLUSTER_LIST attribute is selected. If it is not present then a length of 0 is used in the comparison. .It The path coming from the peer with the lowest IP address is selected. IPv4 sessions will be preferred over IPv6 ones. .It In case of locally announced prefixes .Nm will prefer statically set prefixes over dynamically inserted ones. .El .Pp Attributes set by filters can be used to tip the decision process to prefer particular paths over others. This can be achieved by changing the .Em localpref , .Em med , or .Em weight attributes. AS path prepending or changing the .Em med or .Em origin attribute can be used to influencing the routing behaviour on remote systems. .Pp .Nm is usually started at boot time, and can be enabled by setting the following in .Pa /etc/rc.conf.local : .Pp .Dl bgpd_flags=\&"\&" .Pp See .Xr rc 8 and .Xr rc.conf 8 for more information on the boot process and enabling daemons. .Pp When .Nm starts up, it reads settings from a configuration file, typically .Xr bgpd.conf 5 . A running .Nm process can be controlled using the .Xr bgpctl 8 utility. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width "-f fileXXX" .It Fl c Force .Nm to do .Xr carp 4 demotion at startup when the .Em demote functionality is used. Normally, .Nm will only do demotion at startup when the demotion counter for the group in question is already greater than 0. .Nm will start handling demotion after all sessions with demotion configured for the given group have been successfully established. At system startup, .Xr rc 8 has the demotion counter for the group .Em carp increased until after .Nm is started, so this option should .Em not be used in .Xr rc.conf 8 . .It Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value Define .Ar macro to be set to .Ar value on the command line. Overrides the definition of .Ar macro in the configuration file. .It Fl d Do not daemonize. If this option is specified, .Nm will run in the foreground and log to .Em stderr . .It Fl f Ar file Use .Ar file as the configuration file, instead of the default .Pa /etc/bgpd.conf . .It Fl n Configtest mode. Only check the configuration file for validity. .It Fl v Produce more verbose output. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/var/run/bgpd.sockXXX" -compact .It Pa /etc/bgpd.conf default .Nm configuration file .It Pa /var/run/bgpd.sock default .Nm control socket .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr bgpd.conf 5 , .Xr bgpctl 8 , .Xr bgplg 8 , .Xr bgplgsh 8 .Sh STANDARDS .Rs .%A R. Chandra .%A P. Traina .%A "T. Li" .%D August 1996 .%R RFC 1997 .%T BGP Communities Attribute .Re .Pp .Rs .%A A. Heffernan .%D August 1998 .%R RFC 2385 .%T Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option .Re .Pp .Rs .%A P. Marques .%A F. Dupont .%D March 1999 .%R RFC 2545 .%T Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing .Re .Pp .Rs .%A E. Chen .%D September 2000 .%R RFC 2918 .%T Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 .Re .Pp .Rs .%A G. Huston .%D April 2004 .%R RFC 3765 .%T NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope Control .Re .Pp .Rs .%A Y. Rekhter .%A "T. Li" .%A S. Hares .%D January 2006 .%R RFC 4271 .%T A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) .Re .Pp .Rs .%A S. Sangli .%A D. Tappan .%A Y. Rekhter .%D February 2006 .%R RFC 4360 .%T BGP Extended Communities Attribute .Re .Pp .Rs .%A E. Rosen .%A Y. Rekhter .%D February 2006 .%R RFC 4364 .%T BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) .Re .Pp .Rs .%A T. Bates .%A E. Chen .%A R. Chandra .%D April 2006 .%R RFC 4456 .%T "BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)" .Re .Pp .Rs .%A E. Chen .%A V. Gillet .%D April 2006 .%R RFC 4486 .%T Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message .Re .Pp .Rs .%A T. Bates .%A R. Chandra .%A D. Katz .%A Y. Rekhter .%D January 2007 .%R RFC 4760 .%T Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 .Re .Pp .Rs .%A Q. Vohra .%A E. Chen .%D May 2007 .%R RFC 4893 .%T BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space .Re .Pp .Rs .%A V. Gill .%A J. Heasley .%A D. Meyer .%A P. Savola .%A C. Pignatoro .%D October 2007 .%R RFC 5082 .%T The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) .Re .Pp .Rs .%A J. Scudder .%A R. Chandra .%D February 2009 .%R RFC 5492 .%T Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4 .Re .Pp .Rs .%D April 2009 .%R draft-ietf-idr-optional-transitive-00 .%T Error Handling for Optional Transitive BGP Attributes .Re .Pp .Rs .%D August 2011 .%R draft-ietf-grow-mrt-17 .%T MRT routing information export format .Re .Pp .Rs .%A J. Dong .%A M. Chen .%A A. Suryanarayana .%D May 2012 .%R RFC 6608 .%T Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error .Re .Sh HISTORY The .Nm program first appeared in .Ox 3.5 .