From 8a7fb8858fa87bce6f2f15ee2bbb77704b5fff4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:32:37 +0100
Subject: Finishes 'route reload' feature.

---
 doc/bird.sgml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/bird.sgml')

diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml
index 1f494cc..3905a29 100644
--- a/doc/bird.sgml
+++ b/doc/bird.sgml
@@ -497,6 +497,24 @@ This argument can be omitted if there exists only a single instance.
 	<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.
 
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