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Use the neighbor maximum-prefix command to limit the maximum number of prefixes that a device running BGP can receive from a peer. When the device receives too many prefixes from a peer and the maximum-prefix limit is exceeded, the peering session is disabled or brought down. The session stays down until the network operator manually brings the session back up by entering the clear ip bgp command, which clears stored prefixes.

The restart keyword was added to the neighbor maximum-prefix command so that a network operator can configure a device to automatically reestablish a BGP neighbor peering session when the peering session has been disabled or brought down. The time interval at which peering can be reestablished automatically is configurable. The restart-interval for the restart keyword is specified in minutes; range is from 1 to 65,535 minutes.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) imposes maximum limits on the maximum number of prefixes that are accepted from a peer for a given address family. This limitation safeguards the device from resource depletion caused by misconfiguration, either locally or on the remote neighbor. To prevent a peer from flooding BGP with advertisements, a limit is placed on the number of prefixes that are accepted from a peer for each supported address family. The default limits can be overridden through configuration of the maximum-prefix limit command for the peer for the appropriate address family.

A cease notification message is sent to the neighbor and the peering with the neighbor is terminated when the number of prefixes received from the peer for a given address family exceeds the maximum limit (either set by default or configured by the user) for that address family. It is possible that the maximum number of prefixes for a neighbor for a given address family has been configured after the peering with the neighbor has been established and a certain number of prefixes have already been received from the neighbor for that address family. A cease notification message is sent to the neighbor and peering with the neighbor is terminated immediately after the configuration if the configured maximum number of prefixes is fewer than the number of prefixes that have already been received from the neighbor for the address family.

Perform this task to configure the time interval at which a BGP neighbor session is reestablished by a device when the number of prefixes that have been received from a BGP peer has exceeded the maximum prefix limit.

The network operator can configure a device running BGP to automatically reestablish a neighbor session that has been brought down because the configured maximum-prefix limit has been exceeded. No intervention from the network operator is required when this feature is enabled.

Note

This task attempts to reestablish a disabled BGP neighbor session at the configured time interval that is specified by the network operator. However, the configuration of the restart timer alone cannot change or correct a peer that is sending an excessive number of prefixes. The network operator will need to reconfigure the maximum-prefix limit or reduce the number of prefixes that are sent from the peer. A peer that is configured to send too many prefixes can cause instability in the network, where an excessive number of prefixes are rapidly advertised and withdrawn. In this case, the warning-only keyword of the neighbor maximum-prefix command can be configured to disable the restart capability while the network operator corrects the underlying problem.

1.    enable


2.    configure terminal


3.    router bgp autonomous-system-number


4.    neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} maximum-prefix maximum [threshold] [restart minutes] [warning-only]


5.    end


6.    show ip bgp neighbors ip-address

Device> enable

Device# configure terminal

Router(config)# router bgp 101

Device(config-router)# neighbor 10.4.9.5 maximum-prefix 1000 90 restart 60

Device(config-router)# end

Device# show ip bgp neighbors 10.4.9.5

Device# show ip bgp neighbors 10.4.9.5
 
BGP neighbor is 10.4.9.5,  remote AS 101, internal link
  BGP version 4, remote router ID 10.4.9.5
  BGP state = Established, up for 2w2d
  Last read 00:00:14, hold time is 180, keepalive interval is 60 seconds
  Neighbor capabilities:
    Route refresh: advertised and received(new)
    Address family IPv4 Unicast: advertised and received
  Message statistics:
    InQ depth is 0
    OutQ depth is 0
                         Sent       Rcvd
    Opens:                  1          1
    Notifications:          0          0
    Updates:                0          0
    Keepalives:         23095      23095
    Route Refresh:          0          0
    Total:              23096      23096
  Default minimum time between advertisement runs is 5 seconds
 For address family: IPv4 Unicast
  BGP table version 1, neighbor versions 1/0 1/0
  Output queue sizes : 0 self, 0 replicated
  Index 2, Offset 0, Mask 0x4
  Member of update-group 2
                                 Sent       Rcvd
  Prefix activity:               ----       ----
    Prefixes Current:               0          0
    Prefixes Total:                 0          0
    Implicit Withdraw:              0          0
    Explicit Withdraw:              0          0
    Used as bestpath:             n/a          0
    Used as multipath:            n/a          0
                                   Outbound    Inbound
  Local Policy Denied Prefixes:    --------    -------
    Total:                                0          0
!Configured maximum number of prefixes and restart interval information!
  Maximum prefixes allowed 1000
  Threshold for warning message 90%, restart interval 60 min
  Number of NLRIs in the update sent: max 0, min 0
  Connections established 1; dropped 0
  Last reset never
Connection state is ESTAB, I/O status: 1, unread input bytes: 0
Local host: 10.4.9.21, Local port: 179
Foreign host: 10.4.9.5, Foreign port: 11871
Enqueued packets for retransmit: 0, input: 0  mis-ordered: 0 (0 bytes)
Event Timers (current time is 0x5296BD2C):
Timer          Starts    Wakeups            Next
Retrans         23098          0             0x0
TimeWait            0          0             0x0
AckHold         23096      22692             0x0
SendWnd             0          0             0x0
KeepAlive           0          0             0x0
GiveUp              0          0             0x0
PmtuAger            0          0             0x0
DeadWait            0          0             0x0
iss: 1900546793  snduna: 1900985663  sndnxt: 1900985663     sndwnd:  14959
irs: 2894590641  rcvnxt: 2895029492  rcvwnd:      14978  delrcvwnd:   1406
SRTT: 300 ms, RTTO: 607 ms, RTV: 3 ms, KRTT: 0 ms
minRTT: 0 ms, maxRTT: 316 ms, ACK hold: 200 ms
Flags: passive open, nagle, gen tcbs
Datagrams (max data segment is 1460 bytes):
Rcvd: 46021 (out of order: 0), with data: 23096, total data bytes: 438850
Sent: 46095 (retransmit: 0, fastretransmit: 0), with data: 23097, total data by9