Creating an MSDP peer

About an MSDP peer

An MSDP peering relationship is identified by an address pair (the addresses of the local MSDP peer and the remote MSDP peer). To create an MSDP peering connection, you must perform the following operation on both devices that are a pair of MSDP peers.

You can configure a description for an MSDP peer to easily distinguish an MSDP peer from other MSDP peers.

Restrictions and guidelines

If an MSDP peer and a BGP or MBGP peer share the same interface, specify the MSDP peer and the BGP or MBGP peer by using the same IP address.

Procedure

  1. Enter system view.

    system-view

  2. Enter MSDP view.

    msdp [ vpn-instance vpn-instance-name ]

  3. Create an MSDP peer.

    peer peer-address connect-interface interface-type interface-number

  4. (Optional.) Configure a description for the MSDP peer.

    peer peer-address description text