[c-nsp] BGP soft reconfiguration inbound

[Paolo Lucente]

Hi Mohamed,

to add to what has already been said that if the BGP session with your
neighbor supports Route Refresh capability, you will still be able to
apply new policies softly - which helps overcoming the major drawback
of resetting the session thus impacting the live service. 

To check this out: "show ip bgp neighbor  <IP address>" and then look
at the "Neighbor capabilities" section.

Cheers,
Paolo


On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:30:23PM -0000, Mohamed Ahmad wrote:
> Hi guys,
>  
> I was wondering what was the effect of disabling "soft-reconfiguration
> inbound" on our neighbor statement with our provider (basically a live
> network). I was looking at the ram usage and it's been going up slowly. We
> currently receive full table from our provider but filter to get only
> default (I know we can get them to just send a default but we might remove
> filter in the future to get full routes on an upgraded router). Any ill
> effects of removing the "soft-reconfiguration inbound"?
>  
> Many thanks,
>  
>  
> 
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