RE: BGP Inbound Soft-Reconfiguration and the Lab

From: Nathan Casassa (ncasassa@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 00:09:35 GMT-3


   
In a lab environment I would not be to concerned with this extra command.
It is not like the lab is going to feed you a full 90K route BGP table which
would normally take a bit of time to pull down when clearing the whole
session in a real life situation.

N

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> David Wolsefer
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:25 PM
> To: 'Darek Kuzma'
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: BGP Inbound Soft-Reconfiguration and the Lab
>
>
> Don't take a chance. Ask the proctor if it is ok and tell him/her why you
> want to use it.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Wolsefer, CCIE #5858
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Darek Kuzma
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:35 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: BGP Inbound Soft-Reconfiguration and the Lab
>
>
> >Don't forget the memory requirements for soft inbound.
>
> .... unless you use 12.0(6)T or higher
> check:
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12
> 0newft/120
> t/120t7/sftrst.htm
>
> Thanks,
> Darek
>
> "Daniel C. Young" wrote:
>
> > Don't forget the memory requirements for soft inbound. I know of someone
> > whose router crapped out b/c of lack of memory when he did a
> soft inbound
> > reset. Good thing it was just a lab router.
> >
> > You're right, it does make it faster. But I wonder if proctors
> would have
> a
> > problem if we configure something that was not specifically asked.
> >
> > Daniel C. Young
> > Sr. Network Engineer
> > CCNP (ATM, Security & Voice Specialist),
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On
> Behalf Of crl
> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:05 PM
> > To: Groupstudy
> > Subject: BGP Inbound Soft-Reconfiguration and the Lab
> >
> > I guess this is half a tip / half a question...
> >
> > I find that when doing BGP stuff, I always enable inbound soft config on
> > all peerings in my lab. This doesn't affect the routing tables or the
> > ability to get any particular scenario configured, but it makes it much
> > quicker for me to test my changes.
> >
> > Above is the "tip" portion of this message... Now for the question... if
> > the lab instructions don't specifically say not to use
> > soft-reconfiguration inbound, does anybody see a problem with enabling
> > it? I'd think of it much along the same lines as creating an alias for
> > show ip route...
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