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Prisma SD-WAN Administrator’s Guide

Enable BGP for Private WAN and LAN

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Learn more about the enable BGP for private WAN and LAN.

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Enable L3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding to allow the ION device to peer with a BGP router via the private WAN interface.

Enable L3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding and L3 LAN Forwarding to use dynamic LAN routing.

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Enable L3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding to allow the ION device to send underlay MPLS traffic or peer with a BGP router on a private WAN interface.
You do not need to enable this field if you intend to run BGP on the internet or standard VPNs.
Enable L3 LAN Forwarding to use dynamic LAN routing.
You can enable Layer 3 LAN Forwarding only when there are no Private Layer 2 bypass pairs associated with any of the interfaces on the device. Starting with Release 5.2.3, if there are Private Layer 2 interfaces on the device, you will see a message to remove the Private Layer 2 interfaces associated with the device and then enable Layer 3 LAN Forwarding.

You must enable both Enable L3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding and L3 LAN Forwarding for the ION device to use dynamic LAN routing.