The outbound BGP soft resetting allows the system to apply the new export policies immediately without tearing down any BGP connection.
Context
The BGP soft setting requires that the peers support the route-refresh capability.
Procedure
- (Optional) Enable the route-refresh capability.
- Run system-view
The system view is displayed.
- Run bgp as-number
The BGP view is displayed.
- Run peer { ipv4-address | group-name } capability-advertise route-refresh
The route-refresh capability is enabled.
- Run commit
The configuration is committed.
- Configure BGP soft reset.
- Run the refresh bgp [ vpn-instance vpn-instance-name ipv4-family | vpnv4 ] { all | ipv4-address | group group-name | external | internal } export command in the user view to trigger outbound BGP soft resetting.
external softly resets an EBGP connection, and internal softly resets an IBGP connection.