Soft reconfigurationstores all the route updates received from a neighbor. If you request a soft reset of inbound routes, the software compares the policies against the stored route updates, instead of requesting the neighbor's BGP4 or BGP4+ route table or resetting the session with the neighbor...
A soft reset uses stored prefix information to reconfigure and activate BGP routing tables without tearing down existing peering sessions. Soft reconfiguration uses stored update information, at the cost of additional memory for storing the updates, to allow you to apply new BGP policy without disrupt...
In BFD, a FortiGate can support neighbors connected over multiple hops. When BFD is down, BGP sessions are reset and will try to immediately re-establish neighbor connections. Previously, BFD was only supported when two routers or FortiGates were directly connected on the same networ...