Dell PowerSwitch S4820T Configuration Guide for the S4820T System 9.14.1.0 - Page 221

BGP table version is 855562, main routing table version 780266 122836 network entrie(s) and 221664 paths using 29697640 bytes of memory 34298 BGP path attribute entrie(s) using 1920688 bytes of memory 29577 BGP AS-PATH entrie(s) using 1384403 bytes of memory 184 BGP community entrie(s) using 7616 bytes of memory Dampening enabled. 0 history paths, 0 dampened paths, 0 penalized paths Neighbor AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer 10.114.8.34 18508 82883 79977 780266 10.114.8.33 18508 117265 25069 780266 DellEMC> InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 0 2 00:38:51 118904 0 20 00:38:50 102759 To view which routes are dampened (non-active), use the show ip bgp dampened-routes command in EXEC Privilege mode. Changing BGP Timers To configure BGP timers, use either or both of the following commands. Timer values configured with the neighbor timers command override the timer values configured with the timers bgp command. When two neighbors, configured with different keepalive and holdtime values, negotiate for new values, the resulting values are as follows: • the lower of the holdtime values is the new holdtime value, and • whichever is the lower value; one-third of the new holdtime value, or the configured keepalive value is the new keepalive value. • Configure timer values for a BGP neighbor or peer group. CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode neighbors {ip-address | ipv6-address | peer-group-name} timers keepalive holdtime - keepalive: the range is from 1 to 65535. Time interval, in seconds, between keepalive messages sent to the neighbor routers. The default is 60 seconds. - holdtime: the range is from 3 to 65536. Time interval, in seconds, between the last keepalive message and declaring the router dead. The default is 180 seconds. • Configure timer values for all neighbors. CONFIG-ROUTER-BGP mode timers bgp keepalive holdtime - keepalive: the range is from 1 to 65535. Time interval, in seconds, between keepalive messages sent to the neighbor routers. The default is 60 seconds. - holdtime: the range is from 3 to 65536. Time interval, in seconds, between the last keepalive message and declaring the router dead. The default is 180 seconds. To view non-default values, use the show config command in CONFIGURATION ROUTER BGP mode or the show runningconfig bgp command in EXEC Privilege mode. Route-refresh and Soft-reconfiguration BGP soft-reconfiguration allows for faster and easier route changing. Changing routing policies typically requires a reset of BGP sessions (the TCP connection) for the policies to take effect. Such resets cause undue interruption to traffic due to hard reset of the BGP cache and the time it takes to re-establish the session. BGP soft reconfig allows for policies to be applied to a session without clearing the BGP Session. Soft-reconfig can be done on a per-neighbor basis and can either be inbound or outbound. BGP soft-reconfiguration clears the policies without resetting the TCP connection. Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4) 221