RE: BGP soft reconfig

From: Irfan Siddiqui (Irfan.Siddiqui@vanco.co.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2006 - 06:53:56 ART


It will cause not harm however, in the more recent IOS you don't need to
configure this anymore, as they have a feature called "Route Refresh"

To determine whether a BGP router supports this capability, use the show ip
bgp neighbors command. If a router supports the route refresh capability,
the following message is displayed:

Received route refresh capability from peer.

If Route refresh is not supported then you will need to use neighbor
soft-reconfiguration in your config

If all BGP routers support the route refresh capability, then just use the
clear ip bgp * in command. You don't need to use the soft keyword, because
soft reset is automatically assumed when the route refresh capability is
supported.

Irfan Siddiqui

V-SIP Changes Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Tim
Gregory
Sent: 09 August 2006 10:37
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: BGP soft reconfig

Hi Group,

When im messing around with my own lab, I generally use BGP soft
reconfiguration on all my peers to make clearning them quick and easier
without killing the BGP process.. Does this cause problems, or is it a
bad habit I should get out of? I can't see any problems it might cause.

Thanks

Tim Gregory
Network Administrator
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
LN6 7TS

01522 886566
tgregory@lincoln.ac.uk



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