Cisco ACI configure BGP soft-reconfiguration inbound

[Shahin901]

Hi,

is there a way to configure soft-reconfiguration inbound on Cisco ACI switches to check the received routes from BGP neighbours. 

regards,

Shahin

[micgarc2]

As of today, I do not think this is supported. ACI uses route refresh to update routes dynamically.  This has been requested by customers before and I believe this may be on the roadmap but can't say for sure.

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Regards,

Michael G.

[Brian Dean]

Where can we make an official feature request for this to increase visibility?

[skatragadda1]

Do we know if this feature is available in new releases.

[micgarc2]

Not that I know of. This feature is somewhat deprecated with the introduction of Route Refresh capability. No need to use extra memory to store the routing information from the peer.

[stturnbu]

Hi, 

Yes, it has been added to ACI 4.2(x) release: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/4-x/L3-configuration/Cisco-APIC-Layer-3-Networking-Configuration-Guide-42x/Cisco-APIC-Layer-3-Networking-Configuration-Guide-42x_chapter_0111.html

Also added is the neighbor shutdown. :)

[Shahin901]

Thank you so much for your reply. I think This was a post long time ago
somewhere 1.6 version But good to know that this has been added after
couple of years.

[peter2727]

Hello -

I do not see "soft-reconfiguration inbound" in the 4.2(x) link you provided.

I see the ability to do a "soft" clear on the neighbor, but not a "soft-reconfiguration inbound" so that you can use the "received-routes" command.

Example: show bgp vrf <vrf> ip unicast neighbors <neighbor-ip> received-routes

% Inbound soft reconfiguration for IPv4 Unicast not enabled on <neighbor-ip>