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Cisco Nexus 3000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 5.0(3)U2(2)
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Chapter 5 Configuring Basic BGP
Configuring Basic BGP
Shutting Down BGP
You can shut down the BGP protocol and gracefully disable BGP and retain the configuration.
To shut down BGP, use the following command in router configuration mode:
Configuring BGP Peers
You can configure a BGP peer within a BGP process. Each BGP peer has an associated keepalive timer
and hold timers. You can set these timers either globally or for each BGP peer. A peer configuration
overrides a global configuration.
Note You must configure the address family under neighbor configuration mode for each peer.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Ensure that you have enabled the BGP feature (see the “Enabling the BGP Feature” section on
page 5-11).
SUMMARY STEPS
1. configure terminal
2. router bgp autonomous-system-number
3. neighbor ip-address remote-as as-number
4. (Optional) description text
5. (Optional) timers keepalive-time hold-time
6. (Optional) shutdown
7. address-family ipv4 {unicast | multicast}
8. (Optional) show bgp ipv4 {unicast | multicast} neighbors
9. (Optional) copy running-config startup-config
Command Purpose
shutdown
Example:
switch(config-router)# shutdown
Gracefully shuts down BGP.