What does "Peer-group member nlri changed to peer-group nlri" mean?

[daubman]

On boot of my 7206VXR/NPE-G1 running 12.3(11)T I see the following:

Peer-group member nlri changed to peer-group nlri

Peer-group member nlri changed to peer-group nlri

Peer-group member nlri changed to peer-group nlri

right before getting to 'Press RETURN to get started!' message prints, which is where I'd expect to see startup-config errors.

I could not determine the meaning of these messages, however.

The relevant pieces of my config are:

router bgp x

...

neighbor ibgp peer-group nlri unicast multicast

neighbor ibgp remote-as x

neighbor ibgp update-source Loopback0

neighbor ibgp send-community

...

neighbor x.y.z.1 peer-group ibgp

neighbor x.y.z.2 peer-group ibgp

neighbor x.y.z.3 peer-group ibgp

...

I assume the notification is benign, but am still curious as to what it means.

Thanks,

~Aaron

[Harold Ritter · Accepted solution]

This is as you said rather benign and only happens with the old bgp cli. If you want to get rid of these messages once and for all, simply upgrade the BGP configuration to the new bgp cli (with address-family). To do this use the "bgp upgrade-cli" command under the "router bgp" process as follow:

R1(config-router)#router bgp 1

R1(config-router)#bgp upgrade-cli

You are about to upgrade to the AFI syntax of bgp commands

Are you sure ? [yes]: yes

R1(config-router)#

For more information on the old and new bgp cli, refer to the following document:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1829/products_feature_guide09186a00800ad25d.html#wp1024977

Hope this helps,