Description: The number of instances of the local AS identifier that may be contained in the route's AS-Path without rejecting the route.

The AS-Path attribute of a BGP route contains the identifiers of the Autonomous Systems traversed by the route. When a route is received with an AS-Path containing the local AS identifier, it normally indicates a routing loop, and the default behavior is to reject the route. This object allows this behavior to be over-ridden.

This is useful, for example, for VPN routes, where routes from one CE router are advertised to other CE routers sites through a provider's BGP network. Two CE routers in the same AS can enable this feature to prevent routes from the other CE from being discarded.

If bgpPeerAllowLocalAs is set to a non-zero value, then that value is used for all address families, and the value of bgpPeerAfiSafiAllowLocalAs is ignored.

To configure values independently for each address family, set bgpPeerAllowLocalAs to 0 and set the values of bgpPeerAfiSafiAllowLocalAs as required.

Changing the value of this object while the peer is active triggers BGP to refresh its routes from the peer.