From: Ken.Farrington@barclayscapital.com
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 03:36:19 GMT-3
To all,
Many thx for the great replies :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Donny MATEO [mailto:donny.mateo@sg.ca-indosuez.com]
Sent: 24 November 2003 01:49
To: Kurt Kruegel
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: BGP Soft Reset (BGP RIB)
Short answer should be "YES".
If that's all what you want to do.
Soft recofiguration is only needed if you want to check what are the exact
BGP route(s) that you received from your neighbor in the original state
(before any modification of inbound policy(s) are applied to it).
Donny
"Kurt Kruegel" <kurt@cybernex.net>
Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
11/24/2003 09:44 AM
Please respond to "Kurt Kruegel"
To: "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com>,
<Ken.Farrington@barclayscapital.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
cc: (bcc: Donny MATEO/ADPC/ASIA/BANQUE_INDOSUEZ/FR)
Subject: Re: BGP Soft Reset (BGP RIB)
so ....
will
clear ip bgp in
force a route refresh ???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com>
To: <Ken.Farrington@barclayscapital.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: BGP Soft Reset (BGP RIB)
> Ken,
>
> "Soft-reconfiguration" is Cisco's old proprietary way of allowing
> changes in the BGP policy without tearing down the TCP session and
> rebuilding it. "Route-refresh" is the standard and preferred method
> to do so.
>
> Soft-reconfiguration must be preconfigured with the 'neighbor x.x.x.x
> soft-reconfiguration inbound' bgp subcommand. With soft-reconfig, the
> router caches prefixes received from a neighbor, then installs a
> separate copy which is a result of configured inbound filters. The
> original copy can be seen by issuing the 'show ip bgp nei x.x.x.x
> received-routes' command. Using this method is not recommended,
> because the memory required on a per neighbor basis can be effectively
> doubled.
>
> Unlike soft-reconfig, route-refresh does not need to keep two copies
> of the BGP table. There is no way to see the unmodified received
> table other than going to the upstream side and doing a 'sh ip bgp nei
> x.x.x.x advertised'. Route-refresh is part of the BGP capabilities
> exchange, and does not require any additional configuration.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
> bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com
>
> Internetwork Expert, Inc.
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> > Of Bob Sinclair
> > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:05 PM
> > To: Ken.Farrington@barclayscapital.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Re: BGP Soft Reset (BGP RIB)
> >
> >
> > 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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