[j-nsp] Feature idea: commit and-reboot

[variable at ednet.co.uk]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> If you wanted to, say, turn on graceful-restart, change the families you
> negotiate on BGP sessions, or otherwise make a session-resetting (but not
> so complex you need the safety net of commit confirmed) change while you
> are upgrading or rebooting (the equiv of changing your startup-config
> without changing your running-config), there doesn't seem to be any way to
> do it (other than trying to be really fast :P) which won't result in two
> bounces.

If it's the bounces that you're trying to avoid, why not de-activate the 
sessions or groups that you are going to bounce either just before you 
make the config change or as part of it?  Then reboot/upgrade the router 
and bring the sessions back up when the reboot's complete.

Isn't generally good practice to drop BGP sessions a while before you 
reboot a router anyway to allow removal of the path to propagate 
downstream?
 
Rich