Cisco Router Configuration

This guide provides a standard BGP configuration template for connecting Cisco IOS/IOS-XE devices to IXPN.

Prerequisites

• Assigned ASN from AFRINIC or your RIR
• IXPN IP allocation (IPv4/IPv6)
• Physical to IXPN

Configuration Template

1. Configure peering IP address

    interface gigabitethernet <interface-number>
      ip address <ip-address> <netmask>
      no shutdown

2. Activate BGP routing session

    router bgp <your-asn>
    neighbor <neighbor_ip> remote-as <neighbor_asn>

3. Disable BGP first-as enforcment. This is necessary for route server sessions.

    no bgp enforce-first-as

4. Verify BGP seesion

    show ip bgp summary