Clearing and Resetting BGP

When a BGP routing policy changes, you need to reset the corresponding BGP connection to make the new routing policy take effect.

To reset or clear BGP operating information, run the following commands in the user view.

**Table 1** Clearing and resetting BGP routing information
Action	Command
Reset all BGP connections.	reset bgp all
Reset the BGP connection with the specified AS.	reset bgp { as-number-plain \| as-number-dot }
Reset the BGP connection with the specified peer.	reset bgp ipv4-address
Reset all EBGP connections.	reset bgp external
Reset the BGP connection with the specified peer group.	reset bgp group group-name
Reset all IBGP connections.	reset bgp internal
Clear the route dampening information and releases the suppressed routes.	reset bgp dampening [ ipv4-address [ mask \| mask-length ] ]
Clear the flapping statistics of the routes.	reset bgp flap-info [ regexp as-path-regexp \| as-path-filter { as-path-filter-number \| as-path-filter-name } \| ipv4-address [ mask \| mask-length ] ]