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Re: weird BGP cisco-ism? [problem resolved]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Jul 11 18:00:37 1997

From: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:48:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
       "Re: weird BGP cisco-ism? [problem resolved]" (Jul 11, 17:26)
To: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>, matthew@nic.scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

Original message <199707112126.RAA11467@home.partan.com>
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
Date: Jul 11, 17:26
Subject: Re: weird BGP cisco-ism? [problem resolved]
> 
> > provider, and we have "summary-only" set in our BGP configuration. Every
> 
> Try it w/o the summary-only stuff.

Didn't help at all.

> 
> I don't use summary-only, or aggregate-address, or network XXX at
> all.  I redis my connected & static routes into bgp and arrange
> for my global routes to make it beyond my AS.  I also use pull up
> static routes to null0 for all of my blocks.

I redistribute in a similar way, and have the statics to null0 as well.

Still insisted on flapping at least twice every time it got the brief
hit on the /24 subnet coming from the outside world.

At this point what needs to happen is for this to be recreated in
a lab somewhere and some config changes tried... I can't blow away
my customers one more time just to play with it. 

Some day we'll have routers that can tell you what they're doing, right?

-matthew


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