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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: with a flap flap here and a flap flap there...
Marc Slemko <[email protected]> writes: > 3333 6905 5623 1136 3300 7018 6478 1 701 814 7189 1691 852 6171 (history entry) > Am I the only one that has a problem with this? You withdraw a > route once, and it has flapped enough to be dampened in numerous > places. I could have been half convinced that we had gone back to > distance vector routing seeing this going on... BGP *is* a distance-vector routing protocol. What you were witnessing was a counting-to-infinity problem that is bounded by timers and toplogical constraints. Welcome to the wonderful world of BGP == RIP. This is precisely why a mechanism which constrains the amount of prefix transitions is so important: magnification of flapping is predictable. However, welcome to the wonderful world of lack of filtering, too. There is no apparent reason why a number of those ASes should have reannounced your routes to each other. Each BGP peering (customer and peer alike) should either explicitly allow announcements only from a list of appropriate ASes, or explicitly disallow announcements which have been through peers and (at least large) other BGP-talking customers. This is an Incredibly Smart Thing To Do. On a Cisco, the _ operator is your best regexp friend... Sean.
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