additional-paths

Enables an additional-paths capability for all peers in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) address family.

Syntax

additional-paths { receive [ send ] | send }
no additional-paths receive
no additional-paths send

Command Default

Peer devices configured under a BGP address family are not capable of receiving or sending additional-paths.

Parameters

receive
Enables all peer devices configured under a BGP address family to receive additional-paths.
send
Enables all peer devices configured under a BGP address family to send additional-paths.

Modes

BGP address-family IPv4 unicast configuration mode

BGP address-family IPv4 unicast VRF configuration mode

BGP address-family IPv6 unicast configuration mode

BGP address-family IPv6 unicast VRF configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

Note

Note

Changes to the additional-paths capability for peers in a BGP address family take effect only after the BGP session is restarted.

Peers exchange and negotiate additional-path capability during session establishment.

Additional-paths can be enabled as receive only, send only, or both receive and send.

The no form of the command disables the specified (receive or send) additional-paths capability.

To remove the configuration when both the receive and send options have been set, you should enter both the no additional-paths command, specifying the receive option to disable the receive additional-paths capability, and the no additional-paths command, specifying the send option to disable the send additional-paths capability.

Examples

The following example shows how to enable peers configured under the IPv4 unicast address family to both receive and send additional-paths.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast
device(config-bgp-ipv4u)# additional-paths receive send

The following example shows how to disable the capability to receive additional-paths for all peers in the IPv4 unicast address family.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast
device(config-bgp-ipv4u)# no additional-paths receive