North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: That pesky AS path corruption bug...
At Tuesday 01:26 PM 5/23/00 , Vijay Gill wrote: >This is a hack. We do not need more cruft added on, rather, what we need >is correct behavior. The correct behavior being - if you see a corrupt/ a >malformed update from a peer, send a notify and drop the session. Seems >fairly simple to me. > >The above suggestion of your fails in case of route servers. > >Insist on correct behavior, not on cruftery. ...reading the host requirements RFC and its definition of the robustness principle: Why was the behavior above chosen over the more conceivable and robust "ignore (log) corrupted message, continue with regular operation" ? Given route flap dampening, dropping the BGP session is hardly the desirable outcome here. On that note: under what circumstances should or shouldn't the BGP session come back up without mnual intervention? bye,Kai
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