BGP sessions resetting on configure

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:10:15AM +0000, Nick wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:07:46PM -0600, Stephen Holmes wrote:
> > I was doing something dumb.  When building my configs from my DB, I was setting the start delay to a random int between 20-60, this was causing the BGP config to change every time I ran a config update (hourly), thus restarting the session.
> 
> I thought 'configure soft' tries very hard not to restart protocols?

Generally both 'configure' and 'configure soft' tries not to restart
protocols, but handling reconfiguring of most BGP parameters is not
implemented, as main concern with regard to BGP is changing filters,
which is handled.

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