Disabling BGP to establish a session to a peer or peer group

This task enables you to temporarily tear down the BGP session to a specific peer or peer group. Then you can perform network upgrade and maintenance without needing to delete and reconfigure the peer or peer group. To recover the session, execute the undo peer ignore command.

To disable BGP to establish a session to a peer or peer group (IPv4):

Step

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2. Enter BGP view or BGP-VPN instance view.

  • Enter BGP view:bgp as-number

  • Enter BGP-VPN instance view:

    1. bgp as-number

    2. ip vpn-instance vpn-instance-name

N/A

3. Disable BGP to establish a session to a peer or peer group.

peer { group-name | ip-address [ mask-length ] } ignore

By default, BGP can establish a session to a peer or peer group.

To disable BGP to establish a session to a peer or peer group (IPv6):

Step

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2. Enter BGP view or BGP-VPN instance view.

  • Enter BGP view:bgp as-number

  • Enter BGP-VPN instance view:

    1. bgp as-number

    2. ip vpn-instance vpn-instance-name

N/A

3. Disable BGP to establish a session to a peer or peer group.

peer { group-name | ipv6-address [ prefix-length ] } ignore

By default, BGP can establish a session to a peer.