BGP automation for DC
Highly Automated Operations within Massively Scalable Data Centers. The Border Gateway Protocol Case

The process of configuring and activating BGP has the following disadvantages:

• need to configure all BGP peers explicitly to prepare for the establishment of BGP sessions ;

• need for an AS number to accept a BGP connection ;

• no mechanism for automatically establishing BGP sessions ;

• no mechanism to harmonize the configuration of BGP session parameters within a domain.

This section describes mechanisms for achieving the following objectives:

• automation of configuration operations linked to the activation of the BGP protocol, resulting in a probable reduction in the OPEX budget and minimizing the risk of configuration errors;

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