Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.0(24)S

This task creates and configures a peer session template.

General session commands can be configured once in a peer session template and then applied to many 
neighbors through the direct application of a peer session template or through indirect inheritance from 
peer session templates. The configuration of peer session templates simplifies the configuration of 
general session commands that are commonly applied to all neighbors within an autonomous system.

The commands in Step 5 and 6 are optional and could be replaced with any supported general session 
commands. 

The following restrictions apply to the peer session templates:

A peer session template can directly inherit only one session template, and each inherited session 
template can also contain one indirectly inherited session template. So, a neighbor or neighbor group 
can be configured with only one directly applied peer session template and seven additional 
indirectly inherited peer session templates.

A BGP neighbor cannot be configured to work with both peer groups and peer templates. A BGP 
neighbor can be configured to belong only to a peer group or to only inherit policies from peer 
templates. 

configure terminal 

router bgp as-number 

template peer-session session-template-name 

remote-as as-number 

timers keepalive-interval hold-time