Configuring Graceful Restart for BGP

Graceful restart is disabled by default. You can globally enable graceful restart for all routing protocols at the [edit routing-options] or [edit logical-systems logical-system-name routing-options] hierarchy levels.

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

For a list of hierarchy levels at which you can include this statement, see the statement summary section for this statement.

Note: Configuring graceful restart for BGP resets the BGP peer routing statistics to zero.

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.