8-29. neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} shutdown
Syntax Description:
ip-address— Neighbor's IP address.
peer-group-name— Name of the peer group. See section 8-19.
Purpose: Prior to Cisco IOS Software Release 12.0, the only way you could shut down a BGP neighbor was to remove the neighbor configuration using no neighbor ip-address remote-as as-number. This was an inconvenience, because all configuration statements associated with the neighbor were also deleted. The shutdown form of the neighbor command terminates the BGP session without deleting the neighbor configuration commands.
Cisco IOS Software Release: 12.0
Configuration Example: Administratively Shutting Down a BGP Session
The following configuration administratively shuts down the ...
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