BGP Advantages in Virtualized Networking BGP is more like an Application BGP, by design, is a lot more capable than most typical routing protocols. Here are a few ways MP-BGP/BGPv4 is fundamentally unique: Extensible: MP-BGP can store and run multiple address families (AFIs) and subsequent address families (SAFIs). …

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Since most of NSX-T runs in a firewall mode of sorts, it's probably worthwhile to discuss on of the less well-known routing protocol features - Graceful Restart. As published for BGP, IETF RFC 4724 outlines a mechanism for "preserving forwarding traffic during a BGP restart." This definition may be a little …

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