North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: That pesky AS path corruption bug...
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Vijay Gill wrote: > > > Since the corrupted AS-path does not include the AS that the route is > > coming from (at least in the corruption that I saw) it seems to me that a > > simple solution for all is to filter on AS i.e. only allow routes that > > have the AS of your EBGP neighbor prepended to them. I realize this does > > not cover all cases of wacky AS corruption problems but it may fix some of > > 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. > > /vijay Come on people. It's VERY easy to do one of the following: (1) NOT implement AS-path filtering on route-server connections (2) Apply filtering on RS sessions with an as-path access-list that includes those AS's that you will see via that RS. Am I the only RA that notifies the peering contacts of all other RS peers when someone new joins? I certainly hope not. John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc
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