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<tag>enable|disable|restart <m/name/|"<m/pattern/"|all</tag>
Enable, disable or restart a given protocol instance, instances matching the <cf><m/pattern/</cf> or <cf/all/ instances.
+ <tag>reload [in|out] <m/name/|"<m/pattern/"|all</tag>
+
+ Reload a given protocol instance, that means re-import routes
+ from the protocol instance and re-export preferred routes to
+ the instance. If <cf/in/ or <cf/out/ options are used, the
+ command is restricted to one direction (re-import or
+ re-export).
+
+ This command is useful if appropriate filters have changed but
+ the protocol instance was not restarted (or reloaded),
+ therefore it still propagates the old set of routes. For example
+ when <cf/configure soft/ command was used to change filters.
+
+ Re-export always succeeds, but re-import is protocol-dependent
+ and might fail (for example, if BGP neighbor does not support
+ route-refresh extension). In that case, re-export is also
+ skipped.
+
<tag/down/
Shut BIRD down.