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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:27:55PM -0400, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote: > > As it turns out, both 2008 and 3300 are Infonet, US and Europe. So this > was their foo. > > The problem is obviously that the RFC-proscribed behavior with bad > prefixes works on paper, as it serves to isolate the network originating > the problem prefix. However, that is totally dependent on /every/ router > doing so, thus preventing the problem from spreading, which as we > discovered, does not happen. > > The ideal alternative behavior is to drop the bad prefix--not dropping > the peer, but not passing the bad prefix along either. I've been told that > there are recent Cisco IOS revs that do this instead of passing it along, > but they have other unresolved bugs that prevent their widespread use. > > Should someone think about possibly updating the RFC? you are stuck in the situation that operators are faced in deciding what software to run on their network. if the internet-draft is updated you still need vendors to change their behavior and people to upgrade. - jared
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