Users Guide

Layer 3 Routing Commands 1412
For any change in the outbound policies applicable to a neighbor, the
WITHDRAW packets are sent followed by the UPDATE packets when they
are applied after the delay timeout. In case of changes to other neighbor
attributes like send-community, remove-private-asn, etc. the WITHDRAW
packets are not sent instead, the new UPDATEs are sent after the delay
timeout.
Command History
Command introduced in version 6.6 firmware.
graceful-restart
This command enables the graceful restart and the graceful restart helper
capability. To disable graceful restart and the graceful restart helper capability,
use the no form of this command.
Syntax
graceful-restart [restart-time restart-time | stalepath-time stalepath-time]
no graceful-restart [restart-time | stalepath-time ]
• restart-time —The maximum time in seconds, before which the graceful
restart is supposed to be complete by the restarting router. The allowed
range is 1 to 3600 seconds. The default value is 120 seconds.
• stalepath-time—The maximum time that the helper router keeps the stale
routes from the restarting BGP peer. The allowed range is 1 to 3600
seconds. The default value is 300 seconds.
Default Configuration
Graceful restart capability is disabled by default. Graceful restart helper
capability is enabled by default.
Command Mode
BGP Router Configuration mode
User Guidelines
This command has no user guidelines.