[c-nsp] automatic bgp route refresh

[Nick Hilliard]

On 22/02/2012 09:11, Phil Mayers wrote:
> Even more so, it can be disastrous, causing traffic blackholing, if you're
> editing communities or attributes required to "make things go" and need to
> do this in a multi-step way e.g.
> 
> route map blah 10
>   ! There's no "no set community 1:2", thanks IOS
>   no set community
>   ! oops a route refresh happens now I've sent all my routes
>   ! with no community, and the community is necessary in this case
> 
>   ! a few seconds later...
>   set community 1:3

sigh, yes. This is just one fine example among many of why atomic (or even
pseudo-atomic) edit / commit / revert is a necessary tool on routers.
"reload in 5" still sucks as a means of working around this.

Nick