Need to test BGP Connectivity w/o exchanging Routes

[mloraditch]

Basically I've got a flapping BGP connection, my backup paths are working steadily once i killed the BGP session. Is there a way i can reactivate BGP but block all route exchanges so that I can test the actually stability of the session w/o putting any traffic over the MPLS interface?

Thanks!

[Roman Rodichev · Accepted solution]

router bgp 1

neighbor x.x.x.x route-map block in

neighbor x.x.x.x route-map block out

!

route-map block deny 10

[mloraditch]

Perfect, figured it was simple but wanted to be sure