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championc
New Member
July 2, 2020
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How do I fix BGP Neighbors received-routes error "Inbound soft configuration not enabled"

  • July 2, 2020
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When running the command "get router info bgp neighbor 1.1.1.1 received-routes" I get an error "% Inbound soft configuration not enabled".  How do I fix this ?

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    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    July 2, 2020

    As the error message says just add "set soft-reconfiguration enable" to the neighbor config.

    "received-route" option is to show all received routes BEFORE filtered by route-maps. Without that statement, you can use only "routes" option after the inbound filtering.

    live89
    Explorer III
    July 2, 2020

    https://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD46630

     

    Command: set soft-reconfiguration {enable | disable}   -Enable/disable allow IPv4 inbound soft reconfiguration. Once enabled, FGT starts storing BGP neighbor received updates.

    emnoc
    New Member
    July 2, 2020

    Be careful when using that. If you have no need for it,  than do not enable it. You will use more memory and a firewall is limited on memory as-is when compared to a router.

     

    http://socpuppet.blogspot.com/2013/09/bgp-table-received-only-demonstration.html

     

     

    Ken Felix