neighbor soft-reconfiguration inbound

Syntax

neighbor {<IP-ADDRESS>|<PEER-GROUP-NAME>} soft-reconfiguration inbound

no neighbor {<IP-ADDRESS>|<PEER-GROUP-NAME>} soft-reconfiguration inbound

Description

Enables you to generate inbound updates from a neighbor and change and activate BGP policies without clearing the BGP session. Changes in BGP policies require the BGP session to be cleared which can have a large negative impact on network operations.

The no form of this command disables this setting.

Command context

config-router

Parameters

<IP-ADDRESS>

Specifies an IP address.

<PEER-GROUP-NAME>

Specifies a peer group.

Authority

Administrators

Usage

  • To perform inbound soft reconfiguration, the BGP speaker must store all received route updates, regardless of the current inbound policy.

  • When inbound soft reconfiguration is enabled, the stored updates are processed by the new policy configuration to create new inbound updates.

Examples

switch(config-router)# neighbor 1.1.1.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound