Disabling the BGP4+ peer shutdown state

When the auto shutdown of BGP4+ neighbors on initial configuration feature is enabled, a BGP4+ peer is prevented from attempting to establish connections with remote peers when the BGP4+ peer is first configured. Once all of the configuration parameters for the peer are complete, you can start the BGP4+ session establishment process and disable the peer shutdown state. Follow this procedure to disable the peer shutdown state.

1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode.
   

   device# configure terminal

2. Enter the router bgp command to enable BGP routing.
   

   device(config)# router bgp

3. Enter the local-as command to configure the autonomous system number (ASN) in which your device resides.
   

   device(config-bgp-router)# local-as 65520

4. Enter the no neighbor shutdown command, specifying an IPv6 address, to disable the peer shutdown state and begin the BGP4+ session establishment process.
   

   device(config-bgp-router)# no neighbor 2001:2018:8192::125 shutdown

Example

The following example disables the peer shutdown state and begins the BGP4+ session establishment process.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router bgp
device(config-bgp-router)# local-as 65520
device(config-bgp-router)# no neighbor 2001:2018:8192::125 shutdown