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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP to doom us all
In article <[email protected]> The Great Sean wrote: : I'll be stupid, and ask some questions I've always wondered about. : Why should routes learned by eBGP have a higher priority than iBGP? Love to know myself. Took me a few years to figure out why the strange iBGP redistribution rules (because barring something like confeds or RRs, there's no loop detection method in iBGP w/o it...) : Why should BGP implementations flap all good routes when they see a single : bad route packet? Sorry if this isn't adding enough signal, but Amen! However, there's some disagreement historically about this. I am in the camp who thinks the danger is higher from being able to trigger massive #s of session drops cyclically, but some argue that it's worse to continue talking to someone who may be spewing badness that you only see as syntax error, but some packets may have OK syntax and bad contents. This may be doomed to the neverending debate category, but I feel fairly strongly that I'd at least like a knob that makes NOTIFY not kill sessions (but you'd probably need to twist it it at both ends of the session). : Why don't SWIP forms include Origin-AS? Ahem. Origin-AS(s) - plural. Agreed - mildly. Of course, SWIP isn't updated when delegation info changes, so origin AS(s) would get just as stale as contact info. Avi
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