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Hitlessly removing a route-map from a redistribution statement

spoofneted
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Recently I've tried to remove an appended route-map that was applied to a "redistribute static" behaviour within EIGRP. I thought the following sequence of IOS commands would remove this route-map, as follows:

Pre-Change

ip access-list standard BLAH_ACL
deny 10.99.99.0 0.0.0.255
permit any
route-map BLAH
deny ip address BLAH_ACL
router eigrp
redistribute static route-map BLAH

Command Sequence

conf t
router eigrp
redistribute static
no route-map BLAH
no ip access-list standard BLAH_ACL
end

Expected Resulting config

router eigrp
redistribute static

Actual Resulting config

router eigrp
redistribute static route-map BLAH

This then caused all Static Routes that were being advertised to disappear, as no route-map "BLAH" existed any more; hence the default action is to deny all Prefixes that are defined statically.

My question is, how do you revert in a hitless fashion (i.e. where there is no period of time that the Static Routes are not redistributed into EIGRP) from "redistribute static route-map BLAH" to an open/"allow any" "redistribute static" command?

The only way I can think to do this is as follows, but surely this must incur a very small sub-second period of time where Static Routes are not redistributed into EIGRP, hence are removed - i.e. this would not be hitless:

conf t
router eigrp
no redistribute static route-map BLAH
redistribute static
end

Any advice or help appreciated please - is a hitless reversion of the "route-map" on a "redistribute static" actually possible in Cisco IOS?

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spoofneted
Level 1
Level 1

In case anyone is interested, this (hitless removal of a "route-map" statement) is possible - but the command to do it is not intuitive.

Command

no redistribute static route-map BLAH

If you've got extra keywords/commands in - such as "subnets" for BGP->OSPF redistribution, this looks even more confusing - but achieves the same as hitlessly applying a "...no route-map BLAH" to the end of the command:

Pre-Change (BGP->OSPF Example)

ip access-list standard BLAH_ACL
 deny 10.99.99.0 0.0.0.255
 permit any
route-map BLAH
 deny ip address BLAH_ACL
router ospf 1
 redistribute bgp 1234 subnets route-map BLAH

Command Sequence

conf t
router ospf 1
no redistribute bgp 1234 route-map BLAH
end

Resulting config

router ospf 1
 redistribute bgp 1234 subnets

The "no" is in the wrong place in the command to me - but it works as expected, and means you never have a period where redistribution is not occurring - which you would do if you went down the route of doing:

Outage-causing (OSPF Re-convergence) Example

conf t
router ospf 1
no redistribute bgp 1234 subnets route-map BLAH
redistribute bgp 1234 subnets
end

Hope that helps someone in future - it's certainly helped me.

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