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### Instruction:
What is the purpose of the BGP allowas-in feature?
### Response:
The BGP allowas-in feature disables the default BGP loop prevention mechanism of rejecting prefixes that contain the local AS number in the AS path. It allows a specified number of occurrences of the local AS number to be present in the AS path of received prefixes. It is configured with the neighbor allowas-in command.
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