Re: BGP Soft Reset (BGP RIB)

From: Bob Sinclair (bsin@cox.net)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2003 - 20:04:41 GMT-3


Ken,

The soft-reconfiguration inbound command is required if you want to issue a
"neighbor received-routes" command. The received routes command will show
you what the neighbor is sending you BEFORE any inbound policies are
applied. Very helpful!

HTH,

-Bob Sinclair
 CCIE #10427, CISSP, MCSE
 bsinclair@netmasterclass.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <Ken.Farrington@barclayscapital.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: BGP Soft Reset (BGP RIB)

> Guys,
>
> Please can I confirm that nowadays you do not have to use the " neighbor
> 200.200.1.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound" command.
>
> All my routers without this command have the route-refresh capability on
> (please see output below), and as such and I can do a
>
> "cle ip bgp 200.200.1.1 soft in" or "cle ip bgp 200.200.1.1 in"
>
> without configuring soft-reconfiguration under the BGP process.
>
>
> Also, I assume the router stores two copies of the RIB, one unmodified
and
> one modified with inbound policies. If this is correct, is there a way of
> showing the unmodified RIB ?
>
>
> TEST2#sh ip bgp nei 200.200.1.1
> BGP neighbor is 200.200.1.1, remote AS 6500, external link
> BGP version 4, remote router ID 155.195.16.161
> BGP state = Established, up for 00:06:48
> Last read 00:00:48, hold time is 180, keepalive interval is 60 seconds
> Neighbor capabilities:
> Route refresh: advertised and received(new)
> <======================Please Note
> Address family IPv4 Unicast: advertised and received
> Received 1481 messages, 936 notifications, 0 in queue
> Sent 1537 messages, 0 notifications, 0 in queue
> Route refresh request: received 0, sent 6
> Default minimum time between advertisement runs is 30 seconds
>
>
>
>
>
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