Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(14)S

This document describes the BGP Hybrid CLI feature and includes the following sections:

Related Features and Technologies, page 7

The BGP Hybrid CLI feature simplifies the migration of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) networks and 
existing configurations from the Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) format to the 
address-family identifier (AFI) format. This new functionality allows the network operator to configure 
commands in the AFI format and save these command configurations to existing NLRI formatted 
configurations. The feature provides the network operator with the capability to take advantage of new 
features and provides support for migration from the NLRI format to the AFI format. The BGP Hybrid 
CLI feature is present in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(22)S and later software releases and does not require 
the network operator to perform any specific configuration tasks. 

The BGP Hybrid CLI feature does not add support for complete AFI and NLRI integration because of 
the limitations of the NLRI format. For complete support of AFI commands and features, the network 
operator must upgrade existing NLRI configurations with the bgp upgrade-cli command, which is used 
to convert existing NLRI configurations to the AFI format. This document also describes how to use the 
bgp upgrade-cli command to perform this upgrade. 

12.0(22)S

This feature was introduced.

12.2(14)S

This feature was integrated into 12.2(14)S.