Enabling Bgp Neighbor Soft-Reconfiguration - Dell S4048T Configuration Manual

• keepalive: the range is from 1 to 65535. Time interval, in seconds, between keepalive messages
sent to the neighbor routers. The default is 60 seconds.
• holdtime: the range is from 3 to 65536. Time interval, in seconds, between the last keepalive
message and declaring the router dead. The default is 180 seconds.
To view non-default values, use the show config command in CONFIGURATION ROUTER BGP mode or
the show running-config bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode.

Enabling BGP Neighbor Soft-Reconfiguration

BGP soft-reconfiguration allows for faster and easier route changing.
Changing routing policies typically requires a reset of BGP sessions (the TCP connection) for the policies to
take effect. Such resets cause undue interruption to traffic due to hard reset of the BGP cache and the time it
takes to re-establish the session. BGP soft reconfig allows for policies to be applied to a session without
clearing the BGP Session. Soft-reconfig can be done on a per-neighbor basis and can either be inbound or
outbound.
BGP soft-reconfiguration clears the policies without resetting the TCP connection.
To reset a BGP connection using BGP soft reconfiguration, use the clear ip bgp command in EXEC
Privilege mode at the system prompt.
When you enable soft-reconfiguration for a neighbor and you execute the clear ip bgp soft in
command, the update database stored in the router is replayed and updates are reevaluated. With this
command, the replay and update process is triggered only if a route-refresh request is not negotiated with
the peer. If the request is indeed negotiated (after execution of clear ip bgp soft in), BGP sends a
route-refresh request to the neighbor and receives all of the peer's updates.
To use soft reconfiguration (or soft reset) without preconfiguration, both BGP peers must support the soft
route refresh capability, which is advertised in the open message sent when the peers establish a TCP session.
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 displays: Received route refresh
capability from peer.
If you specify a BGP peer group by using the peer-group-name argument, all members of the peer group
inherit the characteristic configured with this command.
• Clear all information or only specific details.
EXEC Privilege mode
clear ip bgp [vrf vrf-name] {* | neighbor-address | AS Numbers | ipv4 | peer-
group-name} [soft [in | out]]
• *: Clears all peers.
• neighbor-address: Clears the neighbor with this IP address.
• AS Numbers: Peers' AS numbers to be cleared.
• ipv4: Clears information for the IPv4 address family.
• peer-group-name: Clears all members of the specified peer group.
• Enable soft-reconfiguration for the BGP neighbor specified.
CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode
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