Hi BIRD team and fellow BIRD users, are there any plans to implement Graceful BGP session shutdown (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut) in future releases? Ingress is pretty easy and only needs to be implemented once by the user: Check for BGP Community 65535:0 and set local pref to 0 on match Egress is also simple, but more effortful. It also needs a config change in every maintenance window: - Modify egress filter to add 65535:0 - Reload config and egress filter BIRD could automate this by offering a command like "birdc disable bgp1 graceful 15" which would send 65535:0 immediately and then disable the session after a configurable time, in this case 15 minutes. What do you think? Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Moos Systems Engineer DE-CIX Management GmbH | Lindleystr. 12 | 60314 Frankfurt am Main | Germany | www.de-cix.net Phone +49 69 1730902 45 | Mobile +49 160 97997723 | Fax +49 69 4056 2716 | johannes.moos@de-cix.net Geschaeftsfuehrer Harald A. Summa | Registergericht AG Koeln HRB 51135