What is another name for a soft reset?

• A. A route refresh
• B. A soft reload
• C. A BGP session reset
• D. A route withdrawal

Answer: (B)

Soft reset means re-processing BGP routing information without tearing down the session. It’s a gentle reload of the routes and policies while the neighbor session stays up. Some vendors and contexts use the term soft reload to describe this same idea—reloading or reapplying the routing state without a full disconnect.

Route refresh is a related mechanism that asks a neighbor to resend routes for a given AFI/SAFI after a policy change, but it isn’t simply another name for a soft reset. A BGP session reset would terminate and then re-establish the TCP session, which is a hard reset, not a soft one. A route withdrawal is the act of removing routes from the table, not one of reloading or reapplying the session’s routing state.