[10617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: weird BGP cisco-ism?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Jul 11 04:09:02 1997
From: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:54:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: Ravi Chandra <rchandra@cisco.com>
"Re: weird BGP cisco-ism?" (Jul 11, 0:51)
To: Ravi Chandra <rchandra@cisco.com>, matthew@nic.scruz.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> add a default-metric under router bgp.. I think the source of the
> route in the routing table is changing for some reason and the box is
> conveying the metric as MED...
>
> --ravi
Did that. It went from advertising it with an MED of 0 to an MED of 20 and
back, to just readvertising it over and over with the fixed default MED
I'd set (1).
The sad thing is that until flap damping code was added, this sort of
bug was masked... but now I have a few dozen customers totally offline.
-matthew
