Users Guide
neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} soft-reconfiguration inbound
BGP stores all the updates received by the neighbor but does not reset the peer-session.
Entering this command starts the storage of updates, which is required to do inbound soft reconguration. Outbound BGP soft 
reconguration does not require inbound soft reconguration to be enabled.
Example of Soft-Recongration of a BGP Neighbor
The example enables inbound soft reconguration for the neighbor 10.108.1.1. All updates received from this neighbor are stored unmodied, 
regardless of the inbound policy. When inbound soft reconguration is done later, the stored information is used to generate a new set of 
inbound updates.
Dell>router bgp 100
 neighbor 10.108.1.1 remote-as 200
 neighbor 10.108.1.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound
Route Map Continue
The BGP route map continue feature, continue [sequence-number], (in ROUTE-MAP mode) allows movement from one route-
map entry to a specic route-map entry (the sequence number).
If you do not specify a sequence number, the continue feature moves to the next sequence number (also known as an “implied continue”). 
If a match clause exists, the continue feature executes only after a successful match occurs. If there are no successful matches, continue is 
ignored.
Match a Clause with a Continue Clause
The continue feature can exist without a match clause.
Without a match clause, the continue clause executes and jumps to the specied route-map entry. With a match clause and a continue 
clause, the match clause executes rst and the continue clause next in a specied route map entry. The continue clause launches only after 
a successful match. The behavior is:
• A successful match with a continue clause—the route map executes the set clauses and then goes to the specied route map entry 
after execution of the continue clause.
• If the next route map entry contains a continue clause, the route map executes the continue clause if a successful match occurs.
• If the next route map entry does not contain a continue clause, the route map evaluates normally. If a match does not occur, the route 
map does not continue and falls-through to the next sequence number, if one exists
Set a Clause with a Continue Clause
If the route-map entry contains sets with the continue clause, the set actions operation is performed rst followed by the continue clause 
jump to the specied route map entry.
• If a set actions operation occurs in the rst route map entry and then the same set action occurs with a dierent value in a subsequent 
route map entry, the last set of actions overrides the previous set of actions with the same set command.
• If the set community additive and set as-path prepend commands are congured, the communities and AS numbers are 
prepended.
Enabling MBGP Congurations
Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP) is an enhanced BGP that carries IP multicast routes. BGP carries two sets of routes: one set for unicast routing 
and one set for multicast routing. The routes associated with multicast routing are used by the protocol independent multicast (PIM) to 
build data distribution trees.
Dell Networking OS MBGP is implemented per RFC 1858. You can enable the MBGP feature per router and/or per peer/peer-group.
The default is IPv4 Unicast routes.
Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
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