Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(25)S

To suppress the advertisement of routes that are not installed in the routing information base (RIB), use 
the bgp suppress-inactive command in address family or router configuration mode.

This command has no arguments or keywords.

No default behavior or values 

Address family configuration 
Router configuration

The bgp suppress-inactive command is used to prevent routes that are not installed in the RIB (inactive 
routes) from being advertised to peers. If this feature is not enabled or if the no form of this command 
is used, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) will advertise inactive routes. 

BGP marks routes that are not installed into the RIB with a RIB-failure flag. This flag will also appear 
in the output of the 

 command; for example, Rib-Failure (17). This flag does not indicate 

an error or problem with the route or the RIB, and the route may still be advertised depending on the 
configuration of this command. Enter the 

 command to see more information 

about the inactive route. 

In the following example, the BGP routing process is configured to not advertise routes that are not 
installed in the RIB: 

Router(config)# router bgp 500000 

Router(config-router)# address-family ipv4

Router(config-router)# bgp suppress-inactive

12.2(11)T 

This command was introduced.

12.0(26)S 

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.0(26)S.

12.2(25)S 

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)S.