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Re: BGP route explosion

  • From: Andrew Herdman
  • Date: Wed May 01 15:34:03 2002

We saw at least an extra 10k prefixes, the router is/was configured to stop at 120k prefixes, little did I know that it would shutdown the BGP session at that point.

Thanks for the info.

Andrew

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:50:55AM -0400, Toan Do wrote:
> How many extra prefixes did u see?  We saw about 10k prefixes more than
> normal
> 
> Toan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:42 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: BGP route explosion
> 
> 
> 
> I had a network outage this morning brought about by a BGP route
> explosion at around 6:30 EST(-4) this morning.  Anyone else notice it,
> and who the culprit whats?  I got the exact same hit from both my
> providers, AT&T Can, and Telus.
> 
> Thanks
>   Andrew
>