Overview

The NMC-RX application allows you to configure BGP neighbors. (Another term for BGP neighbor is BGP peer.) These are the only BGP objects that the NMC-RX application supports. To configure BGP fully, you must use the Juniper Networks command-line interface (CLI). See JUNOSe Routing Protocols Configuration Guide, Vol. 2, Chapter 1, Configuring BGP Routing.

A router that has been configured to run the BGP routing protocol is called a BGP speaker. Unlike some other routing protocols, BGP speakers do not automatically discover each other and begin exchanging information. Instead, each BGP speaker must be explicitly configured with a set of BGP neighbors with which it exchanges routing information. BGP neighbors do not have to be directly connected to each other to share a BGP session. A BGP neighbor group consists of two or more BGP neighbors that share a common set of update policies.