Configure Graceful Restart

Graceful restart is disabled by default. You can globally enable graceful restart for all routing protocols under the [edit routing-options] hierarchy level.

To configure graceful restart specifically for BGP, include the graceful-restart statement:

graceful-restart {

    disable;

    restart-time;

    stale-routes-time;

}

You can configure graceful restart globally for all BGP groups (at the [edit protocols bgp] hierarchy level), for all peers in a group (at the [edit protocols bgp group group-name] level), or for an individual peer (at the [edit protocols bgp group group-name neighbor address] level).

Configuring graceful restart for BGP causes the BGP peer routing statistics to zero out.

To disable graceful restart for BGP, specify the disable statement. To configure a time period to complete restart, specify the restart-time statement. To configure a time period over which to keep stale routes during a restart, specify the stale-routes-time statement.