Creating a BGP session

Use Lumen Connect℠ to create Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions to manage traffic more precisely on your Lumen® Multi-Cloud Gateway Interfaces. 

You will need to create prefix lists to use on BGP sessions first. 

Learn more about BGP and routing policies.

To create a BGP session: 

  1. Using the left menu, click Services, then Manage Services. 

    Lumen Connect shows a list of all of your services. 
  1. Select Multi-Cloud Gateway from the all products list. 
  1. Click the   icon in the Actions column next to the Multi-Cloud Gateway you want to update, then click Service Details. 

    Lumen Connect shows the Service Details page. 
  1. Click the BGP tab, then click Create BGP Session. 
  1. Fill in the Configuration:

    1. Type a Session Name that makes the session easy to identify in a list. 

    2. Select the Multi-Cloud Gateway Interface the session applies to. 

    3.  Type the Remote Peer IPv4 Address. 

    4. Type the Remote Peer ASN.
  1. Select inbound and outbound prefix lists. All routes will be denied if you don't select any prefix lists.  
  1. Fill in the Advanced Configuration:

    1. Enable MD5 Authentication, then type your MD5 password to enhance session security. 

    2. Enable Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) to quickly detect failures and facilitate faster re-convergence time.

    3. Enable Default Originate if you don’t have a default route. Lumen will announce a default route with default originate configuration. 

    4. Select whether to Redistribute Static Routes.
  1. Click Create. 

    Lumen Connect creates the BGP session and shows all BGP sessions for the Multi-Cloud Gateway.