Disable the BGP4 Peer Shutdown State

The automatic shutdown of BGP neighbors on initial configuration feature prevents a BGP peer from attempting to establish connections with remote peers when the BGP peer is first configured. Neighbors that you add to a peer group have the shutdown flag enabled by default.

About this task

You can disable the shutdown flag.

Procedure

Access global configuration mode.
```
device# configure terminal
```
Access BGP configuration mode.
```
device(config)# router bgp
```
Identify the autonomous system in which your device resides.
```
device(config-bgp-router)# local-as 65520
```
Disable the peer shutdown state.
```
device(config-bgp-router)# no neighbor 10.1.1.1 shutdown
```
The BGP4 session establishment process begins.

Example

The following example summarizes the commands in this procedure.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# local-as 65520
device(config-bgp-router)# no neighbor 10.1.1.1 shutdown