[c-nsp] BGP soft reconfiguration inbound

[Aaron]

Mohamed,
As many have already said, you lose the ability to see some info from your
peer. If you only have 1 upstream then it is worth the memory it takes.
Removing will free up memory since that looks like where your concern lies.
I would try to upgrade your memory if possible.

Aaron

On Dec 18, 2007 9:43 AM, Paolo Lucente <pl+list at pmacct.net> wrote:

> 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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