Specifies the number of equal-cost multipath eBGP or iBGP routes or paths that are selected.
This option is disabled.
BGP address-family IPv4 unicast configuration mode
BGP address-family IPv6 unicast configuration mode
BGP address-family IPv4 unicast VRF configuration mode
BGP address-family IPv6 unicast VRF configuration mode
Use the no form of this command to restore the default.
Enhancements to BGP load sharing support the load sharing of BGP4 and BGP4+ routes in IP Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP), even if the BGP multipath load-sharing feature is not enabled by means of the use-load-sharing option for the maximum-paths command. You can set separate values for IGMP and ECMP load sharing. Use this command to specify the number of equal-cost multipath eBGP or iBGP routes or paths that are selected.
This example sets the number of equal-cost multipath eBGP routes or paths that will be selected to 6 in the IPv4 address family.
device# configure terminal device(config)# router bgp device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast device(config-bgp-ipv4u)# maximum-paths ebgp 6
This example sets the number of equal-cost multipath iBGP routes or paths that will be selected to 4 in the IPv6 address family.
device# configure terminal device(config)# router bgp device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv6 unicast device(config-bgp-ipv6u)# maximum-paths ibgp 4
This example sets the number of equal-cost multipath EBGP routes or paths that will be selected to 3 for the IPv4 address family for VRF instance "red".
device# configure terminal device(config)# router bgp device(config-bgp-router)# address-family ipv4 unicast vrf red device(config-bgp-ipv4u-vrf)# maximum-paths ebgp 3