[j-nsp] bgp graceful-shutdown receiver

[Mark Tinka]

On 5/7/22 16:32, Michael Hare wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I was told by JTAC that the 19.1 default "'set protocols bgp graceful-shutdown receiver" does exactly that [blindly trusts 65535:0 as zero] for iBGP learned routes, but not eBGP.  Unless I'm daft that's not what their public documentation implies.
>
> A set command that means "no really, I want 65535:0 to mean localpref=X for whatever group hierarchy I configure said feature" might be neat.  It would have saved me a few hours as I am a tool assisted CLI jockey, not fully pushing from a database.  But the ship has long since sailed as I ended up changing my import/export policies instead.  It was a worthwhile endeavor anyway as I also incorporated prepending and MEDs as part of our outbound shutdown approach.

Thanks for the feedback, MIchael. Most appreciated.

For me, this somewhat amounts to what Cisco do with RPKI in IOS XE, 
where they automatically apply policy based on RPKI state. I don't like 
that at all. Things can get tricky between code upgrades when this 
"automation" is broken, or changes with little to no documentation.

Mark.