Policy-based BGP configuration management model

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speakers are difficult to correctly and rapidly configure. Presently, all BGP speakers are configured by hand, which is expensive, error-prone, and lacks flexibility and scalability. This paper describes a policy-based management (PBM) framework for auto-configuration of BGP speakers. The framework supports checking of consistency among policies, automatic policy configuration and dynamic adaptation to changes of routing policies and the status of the autonomous system.