Paul -

I don't get this.  'no neighbor activate' does nothing more than
temporarily turn the neighbor off, why would it remove some config?  If I
wanted to remove the neighbor, I would do a 'no neighbor X' instead, right?

donald

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Vivek Venkatraman wrote:
>
> When a 'no neighbor activate' is done for a particular address-family,
>> address-family specific configuration is reset/removed for the peer. I'm
>> wondering if there is a real reason/need to do this. Is it because parts
>> of
>> the code may be processing against some of the AF-specific settings
>> without
>> checking if the AF is active for the peer?
>>
>
> I think it's just a sensible principle of cleaning stuff up when it's not
> being used. If it wasn't, then any 'neighbour ... activate' would depend on
> state since startup, which might also be surprising.
>
> I guess you could add an option to the no neighbour ... activate command
> to leave the config.
>
> regards,
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