[c-nsp] IOS: catch 22 when enabling new bgp neighbors

[Michael Loftis]

neigh xxxxxx peer-as yyyy shutdown

Problem solved.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Scott Granados <scott at granados-llc.net> wrote:
> So this is not a stupid question at all.  I’ve wondered about this myself.  I suspect the reason your terminal slows is the CPU spikes when adding a new neighbor and the session establishes.  (I could be wrong that’s just a guess)  In my case I never had the slow down problem so I would cut and paste the neighbor with AS and then the neighbor with shut, then apply the peer group / description etc and then no shut when the peer is configured.  XR I believe has a commit command similar to the way Juniper does it.  In the JunOS case you build out your peer and all he details then commit to make the changes live.  I worked on a CRS that had a similar setup.  I’m with you I suspect there’s a better fix for this but I don’t know off hand.  The cut and paste method is what I always used.
>
> Thanks
> Scott
>
> On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Lukas Tribus <luky-37 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>>
>> I feel like this is a stupid question with a simple solution, but I just
>> not see it:
>>
>> When I configure a new BGP session, before I can shutdown the neighbor
>> or apply a specific peer-group/session-template/policy-template, I need
>> to configure the remote-as, so the first command in the address-family is:
>>
>>  neighbor 2001::123 remote-as 65005
>>
>>
>> Now, if I don't specify the policies right away, or shutdown the session
>> right away (or the ssh terminal slows down for whatever reason), IOS will
>> establish the BGP session as-is (without any policies), until I manage
>> to configure the rest.
>>
>> In that case, I'm leaking everything I have to the other side for a short
>> period of time, possibly triggering max-prefix limits or causing other
>> nastiness.
>>
>> Especially when using SSH and configuring long IPv6 addresses on IOS-XE
>> here, this seams to be a problem, copy'n'pasting from notepad is not
>> enough in that situation (somehow, the terminal slows down when pasting
>> the config to some 2 - 3 chars per second).
>>
>>
>> Any way to make IOS(-XE) behave in a more sane way so I can configure
>> everything *before* the session brought up? Like defaulting to shutdown
>> or something like that?
>>
>>
>> Let me know how you guys avoid this problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>>
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