Allied Telesis AT-8800 manual BGP Peer and Peer Template Enhancements, Enable and Disable Backoff

Software Version 2.8.1 103

Enable and Disable Backoff

BGP backoff can now be enabled or disabled using the commands enable bgp backoff and disable bgp backoff. BGP backoff is disabled by default, however it automatically enables the first time a peer is added.

Command Changes

The following table summarises the new and modified commands:

Command	Change
disable bgp backoff	New command
enable bgp backoff	New command
set bgp backoff	New low parameter
show bgp backoff	New disabled option for state parameter
	Modified normal, backed off, and peer disabled options
	for state parameter
	New mem upper threshold value parameter
	New upper notify parameter
	New mem lower threshold value parameter
	New lower notify parameter

BGP Peer and Peer Template Enhancements

The option none has been added to the following parameters in the peer and peer template commands:

■description

■inroutemap

■outroutemap

The addition of none to these parameters allows you to not specify a description or route map, and to remove a previously specified description or route map.

peer definitions The enhanced parameters:

add bgp peer=ipadd [description={nonedescription}] [inroutemap={noneroutemap}] [outroutemap={noneroutemap}] [other options]

set bgp peer=ipadd [description={nonedescription}] [inroutemap={noneroutemap}] [outroutemap={noneroutemap}] [other options]

peertemplate The enhanced parameters:

template definitions

add bgp peertemplate=1..30 [description={nonedescription}] [inroutemap={noneroutemap}] [outroutemap={noneroutemap}] [other options]

set bgp peertemplate=1..30 [description={nonedescription}] [inroutemap={noneroutemap}] [outroutemap={noneroutemap}] [other options]

Software Version 2.8.1 C613-10477-00 REV B