Hi
I am planning for a change to shutdown all BGP neighbours (approx. 150 peers) in Nexus 7000, NX-OS 6.x for testing.
I see there is option of gracefully shutting down of BGP protocol process in NX-OS (as per below) that may eliminate the need of shutting down individual 150 peers.
I know when we do BGP neighbour shutdown, BGP neighbourship status on the remote-peer router immediately becomes down hence no need to wait until hold down time expiration(180 sec by default) for routing convergence. I want to confirm if BGP shutdown would behave the same.
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Shutting Down BGP
You can shut down the BGP protocol and gracefully disable BGP and retain the configuration.
To shut down BGP, use the following command in router configuration mode:
Procedure
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Command or Action |
Purpose |
| Step 1 |
switch(config-router)# shutdown |
Gracefully shuts down BGP.
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